[Synopsis-devel] Newbie questions

[cp at sophos.com]

I have been trying to use Synopsis to analyse some C++ code, but I am
experiencing some problems.

I am using the binary distribution synopsis-0.8.win32-py2.4.exe.

To get Synopsis to work I had to:

1. Add /Python24/Synopsis/lib to the system path so that libSynopsis.dll
could be found.
2. Edit Synopsis/Parsers/Cpp/Parser.py to use the ucpp module instead of
the wave module.

Once I had done this I tried to parse a simple header file:

---- simple_test.h ----

1: #ifndef __simple_test_h__
2: #define __simple_test_h__
3: int x();
4: #endif // __simple_test_h__

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Using this script:

---- simple_test.py ----

1: from Synopsis.AST import AST
2: from Synopsis.Parsers import Cxx
3:
4: ast = AST()
5: cxx = Cxx.Parser()
6: ast = cxx.process(ast, input=['simple_test.h'])

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When I do this I get the following error:

---- console output ----

Warning: An exception occurred: Type::wrong_type_cast
At:  (D:\Projects\User\SAVXPCodeAnalysis\SynopsisTest\simple_test.h:3)

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I also noticed that if the file I try to parse does not exist I get the
following error:

--- console output ----

file 'D:\SynopsisTest\simple_test.h' not found
ucpp returned error flag. ignoring error.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\SynopsisTest\simple_test.py", line 6, in ?
    ast = cxx.process(ast, input=['simple_test.hx'])
  File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\Synopsis\Parsers\Cxx\Parser.py", line
73, in process
    if self.preprocess: os.remove(ii_file)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\temp\\synopsis-2420.ii'

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What am I doing wrong?

Cliff