I intend to use Squirrel as a scripting language for my C++ application. Naturally, there should be an API for interfacing with the C++ code (for things such as accessing and modifying attributes in my C++ program). This API would consist of a bunch of classes, enums and functions.
While there are utilities like Sqrat that make binding single C++ functions to a Squirrel VM the matter of a single line of code, that is still not satifactory: It would require me to create both the C++ classes with their functions to actually do all the interfacing work, and then I'd have to maintain all the bindings to make those C++ functions known in my scripts as well. My intention is to remove this double maintenance overhead.
So what I want is a tool that would simply take the already existing header file containing all my C++ classes and functions and generate API registration calls from this file. And while we are at it, of course it would be nice to automatically generate a documentation for every function as well (doesn't matter if it's HTML or just a Squirrel script that contains of function definitions + comments or whatever).
I know there's SWIG, but it doesn't have a binding Squirrel, and that's not exactly what I would be looking for anyway - after all, I need to create C++ wraper code, not Squirrel code. I've seen Flex, but I'm not sure whether that's what I'm looking for, either. So is there any tool that would do what I want (automate the creation of wrapper code and API documentation from a C/C++ header)? Otherwise, I guess I might have to write my own little C++ parser that can parse simple function and class definitions.
