Seeking help

[Arian Dev]

Moin,

I am trying to create a DSL in MPS that gets generated to C code.

I already have set up a small example language and now want to write a simple generator that (for now) just needs to take some of the parameters from some of my custom concepts and write them to a .h file. I don't want to use TextGen - although it would be sufficient for this - because later on I want to generate more complex code.

I installed mbeddr all-plugins.zip into my MPS 2018.2.6 installation and can see the dependencies in the MPS IDE, but this is kind of where I am stuck.

The tutorials I found so far on how to continue just show how to open an example application that does not do what I need. The "screencast" section on the mbeddr website has mostly missing video references. The user guide only shows how to write C in a MPS solution.

Generally it seems that most people are focused on using mbeddr in solutions (so writing and extending mbeddr-C) but I intend to use mbeddr to convert a custom DSL into C code.

Do you know of any good resources for learning how to do this?

Is this even possible or did I completely misunderstand the purpose of mbeddr?

Thank you for any help!

Greetings,

Arian

[Sergej Koščejev]

Hi Arian,

my knowledge of mbeddr C specifically is rather limited but it seems that you need to create a generator for your language which would transform it to the language com.mbeddr.core.modules.gen (concept GenModuleH seems to represent C header files). The textgen of that language will then produce the .h files.

I suggest you join the MPS Slack (https://slack-mps.jetbrains.com/). I hold MPS office hours twice a week (channel #office-hours once you join) where I try to help newcomers get to grips with MPS, among other things.

Best regards,

Sergej

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