From 9c333ade1a1b694fc6ce22e483f5de3e952c17ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oswald Buddenhagen Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 17:50:30 +0200 Subject: move everying into sources/shiboken2 (5.9 edition) in preparation for a subtree merge. this should not be necessary to do in a separate commit, but git is a tad stupid about following history correctly without it. --- sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst (limited to 'sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst') diff --git a/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst b/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..471e2439b --- /dev/null +++ b/sources/shiboken2/ApiExtractor/doc/overview.rst @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +.. _gen-overview: + +********************** +API Extractor Overview +********************** + +The **API Extractor** library is used by the binding generator to parse headers +of a given library and merge this data with information provided by +typesystem (XML) files, resulting in a representation of how the API should be +exported to the chosen target language. The generation of source code for the +bindings is performed by specific generators using the API Extractor library. + +The API Extractor is based on QtScriptGenerator_ codebase. + +.. _QtScriptGenerator: http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/QtScript/Generator -- cgit v1.2.3