c2html
A tool to add HTML syntax highlighting to C code.
Basicaly you give c2html some C code as input and it classifies all the keywords, identifiers etc using <span> elements, associating them with the appropriate class names. By applying the style.css stylesheet to the generated output, you get the highliting. If you prefer, you can write your own style.
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Install
Supported platforms
The code is very portable so it's be possible to run it everywhere, although there are only a build and install script for *nix systems.
Install the library
To install the library, you just need to copy the c2html.c and c2html.h files wherever you want to use them and compile them as they were your files. Since the library is so small, you can also just copy the contents of c2html in your own project.
Install the command-line interface
To install the c2html command under linux, you first have to build it by running build.sh, then you can install it with install.sh.
You may need to give these scripts execution privileges first. You can do that by running chmod +x build.sh and chmod +x install.sh.
Usage
c2html comes both as a C library and a command-line utility.
Using the command-line interface
By running build.sh, the c2html executable is built, which is command-line interface of c2html.
You can highlight your C files by doing
./c2html --input file.c --output file.html
This command will generate the highlighted C code.
--no-table
Normally, c2html will generate html using a <table> element, where each line is a <tr> element. This makes the output kind of big. By using the --no-table option, it's possible to generate a more lightweight output where lines are splitted using <br/> elements instead of using a <table>.
You'd use it like this;
./c2html --input file.c --output file.html --no-table
--style
The HTML comes with no styling. If you want to apply a CSS to it, you can provide to c2html a style file using the --style option followed by the name of the file.
./c2html --input file.c --output file.html --style style.css
This will basically add a <style> element with the contents of the style.css file before the normal HTML output.
--prefix
By default, all of the HTML class names are prefixed with c2h- to avoid namespace collisions with your code. You can change the prefix using the --prefix option, like this:
./c2html --input file.c --output file.html --prefix myprefix-
in which case, identifiers will be generated with the myprefix-identifier class name instead of the usual c2h-identifier.
Using the library
The library only exports one function
char *c2html(const char *str, long len, _Bool table_mode,
const char *class_prefix, const char **error);
which, given a string containing C code, returns the highlighted version using HTML tags.
For example, consider the following C code:
/* .. include stdlib.h, string.h and stdio.h .. */
#include "c2html.h"
int main()
{
_Bool table_mode = 0;
const char *prefix = NULL;
char *c =
"int main() {\n"
" int a = 5;\n"
" return 0;\n"
"}\n";
char *html = c2html(c, strlen(c), table_mode, prefix, NULL);
printf("%s\n", html);
free(html);
return 0;
}
when executed, the output will be:
<div class="c2h-code">
<div class="c2h-code-inner">
<span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-int">int</span> <span class="c2h-identifier c2h-fdeclname">main</span>() {<br />
    <span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-int">int</span> <span class="c2h-identifier">a</span> <span class="c2h-operator">=</span> <span class="c2h-val-int">5</span>;<br />
    <span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-return">return</span> <span class="c2h-val-int">0</span>;<br />
}<br />
</div>
</div>
If table_mode were 1, then the output would have been:
<div class="c2h-code">
<div class="c2h-code-inner">
<table>
<tr><td>1</td><td><span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-int">int</span> <span class="c2h-identifier c2h-fdeclname">main</span>() {</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>  <span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-int">int</span> <span class="c2h-identifier">a</span> <span class="c2h-operator">=</span> <span class="c2h-val-int">5</span>;</td></tr>
<tr><td>3</td><td>  <span class="c2h-kword c2h-kword-return">return</span> <span class="c2h-val-int">0</span>;</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>}</td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td></td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
License
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
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