rust/src/librustc/plugin/mod.rs
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// Copyright 2012-2013 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
// except according to those terms.
/*!
* Infrastructure for compiler plugins.
*
* Plugins are Rust libraries which extend the behavior of `rustc`
* in various ways.
*
* Plugin authors will use the `Registry` type re-exported by
* this module, along with its methods. The rest of the module
* is for use by `rustc` itself.
*
* To define a plugin, build a dylib crate with a
* `#[plugin_registrar]` function:
*
* ```rust,ignore
* #![crate_id = "myplugin"]
* #![crate_type = "dylib"]
* #![feature(plugin_registrar)]
*
* extern crate rustc;
*
* use rustc::plugin::Registry;
*
* #[plugin_registrar]
* pub fn plugin_registrar(reg: &mut Registry) {
* reg.register_macro("mymacro", expand_mymacro);
* }
*
* fn expand_mymacro(...) { // details elided
* ```
*
* WARNING: We currently don't check that the registrar function
* has the appropriate type!
*
* To use a plugin while compiling another crate:
*
* ```rust
* #![feature(phase)]
*
* #[phase(plugin)]
* extern crate myplugin;
* ```
*
* If you also need the plugin crate available at runtime, use
* `phase(plugin, link)`.
*
* See `src/test/auxiliary/macro_crate_test.rs` and `src/libfourcc`
* for examples of syntax extension plugins.
*/
pub use self::registry::Registry;
pub mod registry;
pub mod load;
pub mod build;