| [414] | 1 | Introduction:
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| 2 | =============
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| [988] | 3 | This directory contains the source code of the pidl (Perl IDL)
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| 4 | compiler for Samba 4.
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| [414] | 5 |
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| 6 | The main sources for pidl are available using Git as part of
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| [988] | 7 | the Samba source tree. Use:
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| [414] | 8 | git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git
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| 9 |
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| [988] | 10 | Pidl works by building a parse tree from a .pidl file (a simple
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| 11 | dump of it's internal parse tree) or a .idl file
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| 12 | (a file format mostly like the IDL file format midl uses).
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| 13 | The IDL file parser is in idl.yp (a yacc file converted to
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| [414] | 14 | perl code by yapp)
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| 15 |
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| 16 | Standalone installation:
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| 17 | ========================
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| [988] | 18 | Run Makefile.PL to generate the Makefile.
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| [414] | 19 |
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| 20 | Then run "make install" (as root) to install.
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| 21 |
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| 22 | Internals overview:
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| 23 | ===================
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| 24 |
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| [988] | 25 | After a parse tree is present, pidl will call one of it's backends
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| 26 | (which one depends on the options given on the command-line). Here is
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| 27 | a list of current backends:
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| 28 |
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| [414] | 29 | -- Generic --
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| 30 | Parse::Pidl::Dump - Converts the parse tree back to an IDL file
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| 31 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Header - Generates header file with data structures defined in IDL file
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| 32 | Parse::Pidl::NDR - Generates intermediate datastructures for use by NDR parses/generators
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| 33 | Parse::Pidl::ODL - Generates IDL structures from ODL structures for use in the NDR parser generator
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| 34 | Parse::Pidl::Test - Utility functions for use in pidl's testsuite
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| 35 |
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| 36 | -- Samba NDR --
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| 37 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Client - Generates client call functions in C using the NDR parser
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| 38 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Parser - Generates pull/push functions for parsing NDR
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| 39 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::NDR::Server - Generates server side implementation in C
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| 40 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::TDR - Parser generator for the "Trivial Data Representation"
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| 41 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Template - Generates stubs in C for server implementation
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| 42 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::Python - Generates bindings for Python
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| 43 |
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| 44 | -- Samba COM / DCOM --
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| 45 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Proxy - Generates proxy object for DCOM (client-side)
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| 46 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Stub - Generates stub call handler for DCOM (server-side)
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| 47 | Parse::Pidl::Samba4::COM::Header - Generates headers for COM
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| 48 |
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| 49 | -- Wireshark --
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| 50 | Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::NDR - Generates a parser for the Wireshark network sniffer
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| 51 | Parse::Pidl::Wireshark::Conformance - Reads conformance files containing additional data for generating Wireshark parsers
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| 52 |
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| 53 | -- Utility modules --
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| 54 | Parse::Pidl::Util - Misc utility functions used by *.pm and pidl.pl
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| 55 | Parse::Pidl::Typelist - Utility functions for keeping track of known types and their representation in C
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Tips for hacking on pidl:
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| [988] | 58 | - Inspect pidl's parse tree by using the --keep option and looking at the
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| 59 | generated .pidl file.
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| 60 | - The various backends have a lot in common, if you don't understand how one
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| 61 | implements something, look at the others.
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| [414] | 62 | - See pidl(1) and the documentation on midl
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| [988] | 63 | - See 'info bison' and yapp(1) for information on the file format of idl.yp
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| 64 | - Run the tests (all in tests/)
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