Compiling C at runtime using the Tiny C Compiler
Overview
Tiny C Compiler (tcc) allows runtime C compilation. Using it as a library (libtcc), we can compile C code and access its compiled symbols at runtime. The goal of this exercise is to tie it together with a bit of C++ to demonstrate how it would fare in a C++ codebase.
Demonstrated features
- runtime C code compilation
- expose C++ code as extern C code and call it from the runtime-compiled script
- ExternalProject setup for tcc
Instructions
mkdir build; cd build
cmake .. && make && make install
# launch the demo binary
bin/tinyccdemo ../scripts/cscript.c