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libIDL is a library licensed under the GNU LGPL for creating trees of
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CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files, which is a
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specification for defining portable interfaces. libIDL was initially
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written for ORBit (the ORB from the GNOME project, and the primary
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means of libIDL distribution). However, the functionality was
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designed to be as reusable and portable as possible.
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It is written in C, and the aim is to retain the ability to compile it
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on a system with a standard C compiler. Preprocessed parser files are
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included so you are not forced to rebuild the parser, however an
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effort is made to keep the parser and lexer compatible with standard
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Unix yacc. Currently, flex is required to generate the lexical
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scanner.
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With libIDL, you can parse an IDL file which will be automatically run
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through the C preprocessor (on systems with one available), and have
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detailed error and warning messages displayed. On a compilation
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without errors, the tree is returned to the custom application.
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libIDL performs compilation phases from lexical analysis to nearly
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full semantic analysis with some optimizations, and will attempt to
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generate meaningful errors and warnings for invalid or deprecated IDL.
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