Need a Tool to transform C# source code to C++

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As the title above,I Need a free and lightweight tool to transform simple C# code to C++ code. Any suggestion?
Thanks!

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:17am

jiazhiqiang

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[no name] 18-Sep-12 9:22am

I would suggest that you just translate it yourself.

fjdiewornncalwe 18-Sep-12 9:26am

I agree with Wes. any conversion of code form C# into C++ would be pretty intensive and I would be very, very surprised if there were a tool that would effectively automate this process.

Joan M 19-Sep-12 3:06am

You should do it by yourself.

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Solution 1

I don't think such a tool exists, but if I needed to do this I would post it as a job on vWorker.com. Someone in a third-world country with a university degree would be thrilled to do it for one or two dollars an hour.

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:26am

Yvan Rodrigues

Solution 2

ANTLR C# grammar[^]

This project will generate a C# 4.0 parser using ANTLR v3.2. Then you can add your own logic to do what you want.

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:27am

Espen Harlinn

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CPallini 18-Sep-12 9:29am

Yes just a matter of generating C++ actions from C# semantic...
:-)

Espen Harlinn 18-Sep-12 9:34am

OP mentions that his code is simple, so I hope it does not involve any linq. In addition it's possible to call virtual functions overridden in derived classes from constructors/finalizers in .Net - and as we all know that's not how it works in C++.

Still, automating 80% of the work may be worth a bit of effort.

CPallini 18-Sep-12 15:46pm

It would be worth the effort if the OP could sell his translator. :-)

Espen Harlinn 18-Sep-12 15:52pm

I've used the antlr java grammar to imperfectly translate java into C++ implementing just what I needed at the time - this worked well enough even if it was far from a commercial grade tool ...

CPallini 18-Sep-12 16:14pm

You.

Espen Harlinn 18-Sep-12 16:37pm

Me what ???

CPallini 18-Sep-12 16:43pm

You (not the common coder) were able to do that.

Espen Harlinn 18-Sep-12 16:59pm

U2

CPallini 18-Sep-12 17:20pm

Yes, I like that band so much. However They did nothing good since 'Achtung Baby'.
--Silly Carlo

Espen Harlinn 18-Sep-12 17:51pm

:-D

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CPallini · Accepted Answer · 2012-09-18T03:27:00

Solution 3

I doubt you are going to find such a product.
First of all I doubt the tool would really work (however they[^] claim it works, you may try the demo).
Then, I suppose, it won't be not lightweight nor free.

Posted 18-Sep-12 3:27am

CPallini

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Sep-12 9:59am

I agree. The whole idea of such translation does not make strict sense because there are no well-defined correspondence between the platforms. Whatever exists could work or be somewhat useful, but nothing can convince me it can always give correct results, just because what is "correct"? -- it depends case to case. My 5.
--SA

CPallini 18-Sep-12 15:45pm

Thank you.