Re: [Caml-list] [ANN] pfff_visual, a fancy code visualizer/navigator for OCaml, and more

[Andrei Formiga <andrei.formiga@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I like the idea of code visualization and would like to try
pfff_visual. Alas, I'm having trouble building it. The first thing I
noticed is that the repository bundles versions of all its
dependencies, apparently. I have most of these installed already
through GODI, and I didn't look at the makefiles, but does the code
try to use the system versions of the libraries, if present? Right now
the error I'm seeing seems to be related to ocaml-bdb, though I have a
version installed (and working) through GODI:

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/andrei/tmp/pfff/external/ocamlbdb'
ocamlc -c bdb.ml
File "bdb.ml", line 255, characters 19-30:
Error: Unbound constructor DB_NOTFOUND
make[2]: *** [bdb.cmo] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/andrei/tmp/pfff/external/ocamlbdb'
make[1]: *** [rec] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/andrei/tmp/pfff'
make: *** [all] Error 2

So maybe this would work if the build could use the version I already
have installed.


-- 
[]s, Andrei Formiga


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> On Sep 23, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>
> Hi list,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce pfff_visual, a code visualizer/navigator
> for OCaml. Note that this is not a replacement for Emacs or vi, but more a
> companion that works with Emacs/Vi.
>
> A demo is available here:
> part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRZjBGD3osw
> part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993pmNLY_VU
>
> For the people who refuse to vomit while watching a video,
> here are a few screenshots of the visualizer applied on the linux
> kernel source, the ocaml source, and the source of pfff itself:
> http://padator.org/software/pfff/pfff_linux_source.jpg
> http://padator.org/software/pfff/pfff_ocaml_source.jpg
> http://padator.org/software/pfff/pfff_ocaml_source2.jpg
> http://padator.org/software/pfff/pfff_ocaml_source3.jpg
> http://padator.org/software/pfff/pfff_pfff_source.jpg
> The screenshots can not show the integration with Emacs though.  You'll have
> to suffer and watch the videos for that.
> If you don't have git, you can still download pfff by following this link:
>  http://github.com/facebook/pfff/archives/master
>
> pfff_visual is using pfff, which is mainly an OCaml API to write
> static analysis, dynamic analysis, code visualizations, code
> navigations, or style-preserving source-to-source transformations such
> as refactorings on source code. For now the effort is focused on PHP
> but there is preliminary support for Javascript, and C++ code.
> There is also preliminary support for OCaml code so that the infrastructure
> can be used on the code of pfff itself.
>
> You can get the source of pfff and pfff_visual here:
> http://github.com/facebook/pfff
>
> Here is how to install it:
> $ git clone git@github.com:facebook/pfff.git
> $ ./configure
> $ make depend; make; make opt
> $ ./pfff_visual /path/to/project/using/supported/languages
>
> pfff has been tested on MacOS and Linux and is licensed under the LGPL.
>
> Thanks to
> - Lex Stein for ocamlbdb
> - Olivier Andrieu for ocamlcairo
> - Jacques Garrigue for ocamlgtk
> - Martin Jambon, Mika Illouz and Gert Stolpmann for lib-json
> - Nicolas Canasse for lib-xml
> - Jane Street for lib-sexp
> - Thomas Gazagnaire for dynType
> - Maas-Maarten Zeeman for OUnit.ml
> - Thorsten Ohl for xHTML.ml
> - Sylvain Conchon, Jean-Christophe Filliâtre and Julien Signoles for
>   ocamlgraph
> - Xavier Leroy for ocamlmpi
> - Markus Mottl for ocamlpcre
> - Iain Proctor for ocamlthrift
> - Guillaume Cottenceau for pleac
>
>
> Enjoy.
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