cxgo mit Homebrew installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository

Befehle und Aliase

• cxgo

Projektgeschichte

The official README describes CxGo as a practical C-to-Go translator that uses modernc.org/cc for preprocessing and parsing C, then applies a custom type-checker and AST translation layer. Its stated goals are correctness, human-readable output, and configurable translation.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project documents successful tests on several real-world ports, including Potrace, G722, PortableGL, and Physac, while warning users not to rely on it in production or sensitive environments.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install cxgo with go install or a release binary, run cxgo against a C file for simple cases, and use cxgo.yml for larger conversions that need roots, include paths, file lists, replacements, identifier hints, VCS input, and pre/post commands.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

CxGo is notable to package maintainers because it sits at the boundary between porting and packaging: it can turn legacy C codebases into Go projects, but its experimental status means the package is most useful for controlled migrations and inspection rather than blind production conversion.

Zeitleiste

• The README marks CxGo experimental and documents compiler-test coverage.
• GitHub release metadata lists v0.5.2 among the published releases.
• The config reference documents cxgo.yml as the YAML project configuration file.

Related projects

• CxGo depends on the Go ecosystem, modernc.org/cc, and its own translated example projects such as gotrace and g722.

Quellen

• https://github.com/gotranspile/cxgo
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gotranspile/cxgo/main/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gotranspile/cxgo/main/docs/config.md
• https://github.com/gotranspile/cxgo/releases