Mass-enabling D => License question

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed May 21 04:37:20 PDT 2014


On 21/05/14 11:59, Max Barraclough wrote:

> I assumed we were talking about using the frontend as a means to enable
> syntax-highlighting and such, rather than simple invocation of the DMD
> compiler, which of course wouldn't be a problem.

I assumed we weren't, since it's not really made for that. It would take 
a lot of work to make DMD useable as a library.

> XCode uses its own C/C++/Objective-C/Objective-C++ parser then, I take it?

Yes, now days it uses libclang. It still compiles the code by invoking 
the compiler in an external process. Which could be GCC or Clang.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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