Mirror reflection utilities

Author:	Matúš Chochlík <chochlik@gmail.com>

Reboot of the Mirror reflection utilities implemented on top of the C++ reflection TS.

Cloning the Mirror repository

git clone --recursive https://github.com/matus-chochlik/mirror.git

Building clang with reflection support

Install the required packages for building clang:

apt install cmake clang lld ninja-build libgmp-dev libmpfr-dev

Build and install clang and libc++:

cd /path/to/mirror/src/dir && \
./tools/build_llvm.sh \
   -b /path/to/llvm/build/dir \
   -i /path/to/llvm/install/dir

Setting up the toolchain

In order for the build system of the Mirror library to use clang built and installed in the previous step either copy the default toolchain file:

cd /path/to/mirror/src/dir && \
cp toolchain.cmake.bak toolchain.cmake

or create your own cmake toolchain file which needs at least to set the following variables:

set(MIRROR_LLVM_PREFIX /path/to/installed/llvm)
set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER ${MIRROR_LLVM_PREFIX}/bin/clang++)

Building Mirror

In order to build the Mirror library and its examples with the appropriate toolchain you can do:

mkdir -p /path/to/mirror/build/dir && \
cd /path/to/mirror/build/dir && \
cmake \
  -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/to/mirror/toolchain.cmake \
  /path/to/mirror/src/dir && \
make -j N

or

mkdir -p /path/to/mirror/build/dir && \
cd /path/to/mirror/build/dir && \
cmake \
  -G Ninja \
  -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/path/to/mirror/toolchain.cmake \
  /path/to/mirror/src/dir && \
ninja

License

Copyright 2008-2021 Matus Chochlik. Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

The applications using Qt5 are distributed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE version 3. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt