falsycat/biner

[READONLY] meta-programming language for binary format specification

biner

The Simplest Interface Description Language for Binary Format

features

• provides readable way to express binary format
• generates pack/unpack function for C from biner file

requirements

• flex
• bison
• cmake
• gcc (generated codes uses GCC extension)

install

1. add this repo to yours as submodule
2. write the following code on your CMakeLists.txt

add_subdirectory(path/to/biner)
target_biner_sources(target-name
  OUTPUT  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated
  SOURCES
    file1.biner
    file2.biner
)

Now file1.biner.h and file2.biner.h are generated under ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated directory.

You can get an example from test directory.

license

Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License

author

falsycat

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