h2pas
H2PAS - Free Pascal C header to pascal unit translator.
What follows below is the man page of h2pas. If you have installed the man pages then you can view them with the man command.h2pas(1) Free Pascal C header conversion utility h2pas(1) NAME h2pas - The C header to pascal unit conversion program. SYNOPSIS h2pas [options] filename DESCRIPTION h2pas attempts to convert a C header file to a pascal unit. it can handle most C constructs that one finds in a C header file, and attempts to translate them to their pascal counterparts. see the CONSTRUCTS section for a full description of what the translator can handle. USAGE H2pas is a command-line tool that translates a C header file to a spascal unit. It reads the C header file and translates the C declarations to equivalent pascal decla- rations that can be used to access code written in C. The output of the h2pas program is written to a file with the same name as the C header file that was used as input, but with the extension .pp. The output file that h2pas creates can be customized in a number of ways by means of many options. OPTIONS The output of h2pas can be controlled with the following options: -d use external; for all procedure and function decla- rations. -D use external libname name 'func_name' for function and procedure declarations. -e Emit a series of constants instead of an enumera- tion type for the C enum construct. -i create an include file instead of a unit (omits the unit header). -l libname specify the library name for external function dec- larations. -o outfile Specify the output file name. Default is the input file name with the extension replaced by .pp "." FreePascal 12 Dec 1999 1 h2pas(1) Free Pascal C header conversion utility h2pas(1) -p use the letter P in front of pointer type parame- ters instead of "^". -s Strip comments from the input file. By default com- ments are converted to comments, but they may be displaced, since a comment is handled by the scan- ner. -t prepend typedef type names with the letter T (used to follow Borland's convention that all types should be defined with T). -v replace pointer parameters by call by reference parameters. Use with care because some calls can expect a NIL pointer. -w Header file is a win32 header file (adds support for some special macros). -x handle SYS_TRAP of the PalmOS header files. CONSTRUCTS The following C declarations and statements are recog- nized: defines defines are changed into pascal constants if they are simple defines. macros are changed - wherever possible to functions; however the arguments are all integers, so these must be changed manually. Simple expressions in define staments are recog- nized, as are most arithmetic operators: addition, substraction, multiplication, division, logical operators, comparision operators, shift operators. The C construct ( A ? B : C) is also recognized and translated to a pascal construct with an IF state- ment (this is buggy, however). preprocessor statements the conditional preprocessing commands are recog- nized and translated into equivalent pascal com- piler directives. The special #ifdef __cplusplus is also recognized and removed. typedef A typedef statement is changed into a pascal type statement. The following basic types are recog- nized: FreePascal 12 Dec 1999 2 h2pas(1) Free Pascal C header conversion utility h2pas(1) char changed to char. float changed to real (=double in free pascal). int changed to longint. long changed to longint. long int changed to longint. short changed to integer. unsigned changed to cardinal. unsigned char changed to byte. unsigned int changed to cardinal. unsigned long int changed to cardinal. unsigned short changed to word. void ignored. These types are also changed if they appear in the argu- ments of a function or procedure. functions and procedures functions and procedures are translated as well; pointer types may be changed to call by reference arguments (using the var argument) by using the -p command line argument. functions that have a vari- able number of arguments are changed to a function with an array of const argument. specifiers the extern specifier is recognized; however it is ignored. the packed specifier is also recognised and changed with the PACKRECORDS directive. The const specifier is also recognized, but is ignored. modifiers If the -w option is specified, then the following modifiers are recognized: STDCALL , CDECL , CALL- BACK , PASCAL , WINAPI , APIENTRY , WINGDIAPI as defined in the win32 headers. If additionally the -x option is specified then the SYS_TRAP specifier is also recognized. FreePascal 12 Dec 1999 3 h2pas(1) Free Pascal C header conversion utility h2pas(1) enums enum constructs are changed into enumeration types; bear in mind that in C enumeration types can have values assigned to them; Free Pascal also allows this to a certain degree. If you know that values are assigned to enums, it is best to use the -e option to change the enus to a series of integer constants. unions unions are changed to variant records. structs are changed to pascal records, with C packing. SEE ALSO ppc386(1) ppumove(1) FreePascal 12 Dec 1999 4