May 2011 – Michael J. Radwin

stubgen – a member function stub generator for C++

May 10, 2011 mradwin

Introduction

stubgen is a C++ development tool that keeps code files in sync with their associated headers. When it finds a member function declaration in a header file that doesn’t have a corresponding implementation, it creates an empty skeleton with descriptive comment headers.

stubgen has several options, but this brief example should give you an idea of what it can do. Suppose you have the following header file Point.h:

class Point {
public:
    Point(int x, int y);
    void addTo(const Point& other);

    int xValue, yValue;
};

Running stubgen -s Point.h would produce the following file:

/***********************************************
 * AUTHOR: Michael J. Radwin
 *   FILE: Point.cpp
 *   DATE: Mon Apr 20 17:39:05 1998
 *  DESCR:
 ***********************************************/
#include "Point.h"

/*
 *  Method: Point::Point()
 *   Descr:
 */
Point::Point(int x, int y)
{
}

/*
 *  Method: Point::addTo()
 *   Descr:
 */
void
Point::addTo(const Point& other)
{
}

Documentation

README

building, installation instructions, and acknowledgements

Manual Page

detailed descriptions, examples

Change Log

a listing of changes made on various versions

BSD License

terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification

Download Source and Win32 executable

http://www.radwin.org/michael/projects/stubgen/dist/

I’ve successfully built stubgen on the following platforms, using the GNU tools make, gcc, bison, and flex: