jcut is a simple command line tool to perform unit testing in C code using the LLVM Just In Time (JIT) engine and some of the Clang APIs.
Under the folder 'tutorial' you will find a PDF/txt file with a small tutorial covering the usage and features of the jcut tool. In there you will find an example C file and an example test file.
jcut is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
jcut is in its really early stages of life, so any feedback or bug report can be sent to:
adrianog.sw@gmail.com
You can download the source tarball and/or some windows binaries here:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n9znjt4r21c0f30/AAAKt6H5BHDU2Lx0Q0KxJlXva?dl=0
- The windows binaries are inside the *.zip file.
And the source code can be directly downloaded from:
https://github.com/elfus/jcut
Thanks for using this tool!
You have two options to compile jcut from source, the easy and the hard one:
- Easy way: install jcut using the well known ./configure script.
- Hard way: install jcut by compiling it within the clang source tree.
These options are explained below:
- Easy way: install jcut using the well known ./configure script.
Before you attempt to ./configure and make jcut you need to install its dependencies.
JCUT depends on the llvm 3.4 and clang 3.4 libraries. And in turn you need to satisfy their own dependencies. An easy way to install such dependencies is by using the package manager provided in your Linux distro.
This tarball has been tested under Linux Mint 17, Ubuntu 14.04 and Fedora 20. For Fedora you can install all the dependencies with the following command:
sudo yum install zlib-devel gcc-c++ llvm-3.4 llvm-devel-3.4 llvm-static-3.4 clang-devel-3.4
For Linux Mint 17 and Ubuntu 14.04 you can install al the dependencies with the following command:
sudo apt-get install g++ llvm llvm-3.4 llvm-3.4-runtime llvm-3.4-dev clang-3.4 libclang-3.4 libclang-3.4-dev
All other linux distros will have to install their equivalent packages to the package names from the previous two command lines. Keep in mind that you may need to install dependencies needed by either LLVM or Clang.
JCUT is being compiled statically, so you need to install both the shared and static libraries. The above commands will do the trick for Fedora, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. This will change in time as this the first 'autotool' package done by Adrian, it will take some time while he gets familiar with it to tweak it.
After installing the dependencies inside the jcut-X.X.tar.gz file there is a script called 'configure'. Now you can execute:
./configure && make make install # If installing in a system path, otherwise just use make
NOTE: It is highly recommended to build JCUT in its own build directory. Just create a another diferent folder anywher you want and execute the configure script inside that folder. This will keep the original JCUT folder clean and you can easily hack it without the noise of having lots of object files.
Another advantage of creating a different directory to 'configure' it is that the Makefile that jcut is distributed with is used to compile it within the Clang source tree. See section '2. Hard way'
See the INSTALL file for more information on how to use the 'configure' script.
- Hard way: install jcut by compiling it within the clang source tree.
The Makefile included with JCUT contains all the rules needed to compile JCUT within the Clang source tree. If you happen to choose option 1 for compiling JCUT and then you 'configure' it in the same source directory, the 'configure' script will overwrite such Makefile and you will not be able to compile JCUT from within the Clang source tree again. The solution to this is download the Makefile again and if you 'configure' it as described in option 1 make sure you create a build directory different from the source directory.
The LLVM and clang version used to develop this tool is 3.4! Once there is an official release for 3.5 the porting to such version will be done :)
Follow the steps here
http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
And right before step number 6 make sure you clone the jcut folder in the following location:
cd llvm/tools/clang/tools git clone https://github.com/elfus/jcut.git
Then modify the Makefile located at:
llvm/tools/clang/tools/Makefile
To add the jcut folder as part of the compilation process, i.e. I added this to end of the Makefile before include directive.
... DIRS += jcut
include $(CLANG_LEVEL)/Makefile
Continue with the step number 6 from the clang website.