I am working on a tool to auto-generate some C/C++ code by parsing a file. Is there a tool that provides an interface to write C/C++ code like this

Struct* pStruct = generator->beginStruct("Material");
{
	pStruct->addVariable("Buffer*", "pBuffer");
	pStruct->addVariable("Texture*", "pTexture");
}
generator->endStruct(pStruct);

/* Output file
struct Material
{
	Buffer* pBuffer;
	Texture* pTexture;
};
*/

Now I know its quite trivial to write a tool like this but I am curious to know whether a tool already exists. Seems just like a tool generating json/xml but for C++.

Note: I won't be doing any fancy stuff like templates or inheritance. Just pure C structs.

Thank you

I would guess that you wouldnt find anything like that because it is redundant. XML and JSON are formated syntactical strict languages where inside a C file anything could be written that is formal correct in the first order. Thats why writing a XML or JSON parser is less time consuming than a C/C++ parser.

Maybe either you need to write it yourself or use something like an AST to get what you want. You could look at C#'s IL Code generator for an approach how they do it

Code generators are typically used in the context of domain-specific languages, so anything you find would likely be tied to a specific language. It would probably be easier to write your own simple one from scratch rather than try and adapt another one to your needs.

Luckily there are some excellent references on DSLs out there.

Hm sorry but I need to ask - but why?

I ended up writing my own. Use clang format to format the ugly generated code too  Makes my life a lot easier