v0.7.0

News

• Added Objective-C as a supported language through objc switch
  • Creates a middle layer of Objective-C++ with a header of only Objective-C
  • Sets the Objective-C++ version to the same as the users target

Misc

• Update to pybind11 v2.9.2
• Sets the C++ version of the generated target to the same as the users target
  • True for both the build target as well as the underlying Clang instance

v0.6.3

News

• Update to LLVM14

v0.6.2

News

• Add support for Visual Studio 2022

v0.6.1

News

• Update to Parser v0.5.6

  • Adds better support for how to handle forward declarations

• Update to Frontend.py v0.6.1

• Update to Frontend.wasm v0.5.1

What's Changed

• Latestdeps by @srydell in #28

Full Changelog: v0.6.0...v0.6.1

v0.6.0

News

Bindings

Python

• Add support for transferring documentation from C++ namespaces to pybind11 modules

• Add support for the following operators:

C++ operator	Python operator
operator+	__add__
operator-	__sub__
operator*	__mul__
operator/	__truediv__
operator%	__mod__
operator+=	__iadd__
operator-=	__isub__
operator*=	__imul__
operator/=	__itruediv__
operator%=	__imod__
operator==	__eq__
operator!=	__ne__
operator>	__gt__
operator>=	__ge__
operator<	__lt__
operator<=	__ge__
operator[]	__getitem__
operator()	__call__

Overloading is also supported. There are more extensive documentation in the examples section.

• Added support for polymorphic classes

  • Inherit from virtual C++ classes in python
  • Override virtual C++ member functions in python
  • Call functions via C++ base class on derived class from python

• Improve readability of generated output

WebAssembly

• Added support for inheriting from C++ classes from javascript
• Automatic downcasting
• Improved documentation
• Improved readability of output somewhat
• Supports raw pointers when necessary
  • Trusts the C++ side to know when to deallocate

Minor

• Improve accessibility of documentation site on mobile

v0.5.0

News

Bindings

• Add support for transferring documentation from C++ to pybind11
  • Add tests for all officially supported documentation styles
  • Supported for:
    • Classes
    • Member variables
    • Enums
    • Functions

Examples of documentation string styles:

// One line comment
class OneLiner {};

/** Single multi line comment */
class SingleMulti {};

/**
* Multi
* line
* comment
*/
class Multi {};

/**
Bare multi
Another line
*/
class BareMulti {};

/*!
* Qt style
*/
class QtStyle {};

/*******************************************************************************
* JavaDoc Style
* is
* boxy
******************************************************************************/
class JavaDoc {};

///
/// Triplets is a commitment
///
class Triplets {};

//!
//! This is one of the doxy styles
//!
class DoxyBang {};

v0.4.1

News

Documentation

• Add examples on how to use the WebAssembly from a web page.

Minor

• Make it easier to add linker flags to WebAssembly targets
  • More info in the documentation: https://docs.tolc.io/webassembly/introduction/

v0.4.0

News

Output

• Renamed the bindings output file from {library}.cpp to {library}_{language}.cpp

  • This matches what the target is called in CMake
  • If you are using the CMake wrappers this is an internal change

• Vastly improved the readability of the WebAssembly bindings

  • Removed excessive whitespace when binding multiple namespaces
  • Fixed indentation when using public enums within classes

Minor

• Removed SYSTEM when creating a CPython library with pybind11 since it no longer has any effect

If you want to include pybind11 as a system header then add the following after calling tolc_create_bindings:

set_property(TARGET pybind11::pybind11 APPEND PROPERTY NO_SYSTEM_FROM_IMPORTED)

v0.3.0

News

Features

• Now supports generating bindings to WebAssembly via frontend.wasm
  • Checkout the documentation for more info.

Breaking

• Renamed CMake function tolc_create_translation to tolc_create_bindings.

v0.2.0

News

Initial versioned release!

Features

• Most C++ constructs are automatically given a binding to python

See https://tolc.io for more information