CFront is a library that provides a complete ANSI-C(89) front-end. It can read an input file, preprocess it, parse it, perform semantical checking, and type checking. In addition to that it provides a powerful API for examining and rewriting the CFront Abstract Syntax Tree, and it can write the, possibly modified, AST to a file.

CFront is platform independant, insofar that the platform dependencies can be configured at run-time. There is support for the gcc style __attribute__ mechanism.

• Documentation

Both manuals are still in draft.

• Programmers manual
• Reference manual

• Releases

There is no release yet. If you wish, you can download CFront from the SourceForge CVS server using:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cfront login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/cfront co -P .

• Building CFront

CFront requires the following tools and libraries to be built:

• Front : The compiler front-end generator
• GMP : The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
• A POSIX 2 compliant libc (very common on Unixes), or libregex (for MINGW32 for example)
• GNU make 3.79.1 or later
• GCC 3 or later
• Flex
• Bison

Once you have assured yourself that these are all on your system, simply type make. You can find the library and includes in the directory named after your platform (eg: Linux, SunOS, MINGW32).

• Licensing

CFront is licensed under the GPL, and it's copyright by Philips Research.

• Links

• CFront uses Front
  
• The SourceForge page
  

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