Re: [Caml-list] New: cppo, C preprocessor for OCaml

[Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org>]

Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> 
>> Dear list,
>>
>> It is my pleasure to announce the first release of cppo, an OCaml-friendly
>> equivalent of the C preprocessor (cpp).
>>
>> Cppo provides the classic #include, #define and conditionals (#ifdef, ...)
>> which are occasionally useful.  Cppo can be used on OCaml files and variants
>> of OCaml that use the same lexer, such as ocamllex.
>>
>> The implementation of cppo was tested with ocaml 3.09 to 3.11 and is based on
>> ocamllex/ocamlyacc (works also with menhir which I used during the development).
>>
>>
>> The documentation and the source tarballs are at:
>>
>>   http://martin.jambon.free.fr/cppo.html
>>
>> The package is also available from GODI (apps-cppo).
>>
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>>
>> Martin
> 
> Without looking at it, is is camlp4 based and can I combine that with
> other camlp4 modules or do I need to seperately preprocess the
> source?

No, cppo is a standalone executable and is independent from camlp4 or camlp5.

Note that the camlp4 world has optcomp:

  http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/optcomp/



Martin

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