fastddsgen - IDL source code generator
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Description
fastddsgen is a command line tool that generates eProsima Fast DDS source code using the data types
defined in an IDL (Interface Definition Language) file. This generated source code can be used in any
Fast DDS application in order to define the data type of a topic, which will later be used to publish or
subscribe.
To declare the structured data, the IDL format must be used. IDL is a specification language, made by OMG
(Object Management Group), which describes an interface in a language independent manner, allowing
communication between software components that do not share the same language. The eProsima Fast DDS-Gen
tool reads the IDL files and parses a subset of the OMG IDL specification to generate source code for
data serialization. This subset includes the data type descriptions included in Defining a data type via
IDL. The rest of the file content is ignored.
Name
fastddsgen - IDL source code generator
Options
-help shows the help information
-version
shows the current version of fastddsgen.
-dDIR write generated files to DIR.
-IDIR add DIR to the preprocessor include path.
-tDIR use DIR as temporary directory
-examplePLATFORM
generate an example to compile the generated files for a specific platform.
-test add a serialization test to the generated example code
-languageLANG
select programming language (default: C++)
-replace
overwrite existing output files.
-ppDisable
disable the preprocessor.
-ppPathCPP
use CPP as preprocessor executable.
-typeros2
name generated types compliant to ROS 2 conventions.
-typeobject
generate TypeObject files for the IDL and modify the generated constructor to register the
TypeObject representation into the type factory.
-cs apply case-sensitive matching to IDL grammar.
See Also
https://fast-dds.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastddsgen
Synopsis
fastddsgen [options] FILE.idl [FILE.idl...]
