Exclude comments from output with flag

nimterop.nimble

@@ -27,12 +27,9 @@ proc execTest(test: string) =
 proc tsoloud() =
   execTest "tests/tsoloud.nim"
 
-proc buildToast() =
-  execCmd(&"nim c -d:release nimterop/toast.nim")
-
-task rebuildToast, "rebuild toast":
+task buildToast, "build toast":
   # If need to manually rebuild (automatically built on 1st need)
-  buildToast()
+  execCmd(&"nim c -d:release nimterop/toast.nim")
 
 proc testAll() =
   execTest "tests/tnimterop_c.nim"
@@ -69,7 +66,7 @@ proc runNimDoc() =
     execCmd &"nim js -o:{htmldocsDir}/dochack.js {getNimRootDir()}/tools/dochack/dochack.nim"
 
 task test, "Test":
-  buildToast()
+  buildToastTask()
   testAll()
   runNimDoc()
 

nimterop/globals.nim

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ type
   State = ref object
     compile*, defines*, headers*, includeDirs*, searchDirs*, symOverride*: seq[string]
 
-    nocache*, debug*, past*, preprocess*, pnim*, pretty*, recurse*: bool
+    nocache*, nocomments*, debug*, past*, preprocess*, pnim*, pretty*, recurse*: bool
 
     code*, mode*, pluginSourcePath*: string
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ type
   NimState {.used.} = ref object
     identifiers*: TableRef[string, string]
 
-    constStr*, debugStr*, enumStr*, procStr*, typeStr*, commentStr*: string
+    commentStr*, constStr*, debugStr*, enumStr*, procStr*, typeStr*: string
 
     gState*: State
 

nimterop/grammar.nim

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ proc genPragma(nimState: NimState, pragmas: varargs[string]): string =
   result = result.replace(nimState.impHeader & ", cdecl", nimState.impHeader & "C")
 
 proc getComments(nimState: NimState): string =
-  if nimState.commentStr.len != 0:
+  if not nimState.gState.nocomments and nimState.commentStr.len != 0:
     result = "\n" & nimState.commentStr
     nimState.commentStr = ""
 

nimterop/toast.nim

@@ -98,33 +98,34 @@ proc process(gState: State, path: string, astTable: AstTable) =
     echo gState.code
 
 proc main(
-    mode = modeDefault,
+    preprocess = false,
     past = false,
     pnim = false,
-    pretty = true,
-    preprocess = false,
-    pgrammar = false,
     recurse = false,
-    debug = false,
+    nocomments = false,
     defines: seq[string] = @[],
     includeDirs: seq[string] = @[],
     symOverride: seq[string] = @[],
     pluginSourcePath: string = "",
-    source: seq[string],
+    debug = false,
+    mode = modeDefault,
+    pgrammar = false,
+    source: seq[string]
   ) =
 
   var gState = State(
-    mode: mode,
+    preprocess: preprocess,
     past: past,
     pnim: pnim,
-    pretty: pretty,
-    preprocess: preprocess,
     recurse: recurse,
-    debug: debug,
+    nocomments: nocomments,
     defines: defines,
     includeDirs: includeDirs,
     symOverride: symOverride,
-    pluginSourcePath: pluginSourcePath
+    pluginSourcePath: pluginSourcePath,
+    debug: debug,
+    mode: mode,
+    pretty: true
   )
 
   gState.symOverride = gState.symOverride.getSplitComma()
@@ -145,26 +146,28 @@ proc main(
 when isMainModule:
   import cligen
   dispatch(main, help = {
+    "preprocess": "run preprocessor on header",
     "past": "print AST output",
-    "mode": "language; see CompileMode", # TODO: auto-generate valid choices
     "pnim": "print Nim output",
+    "recurse": "process #include files",
+    "nocomments": "exclude top-level comments from output",
     "defines": "definitions to pass to preprocessor",
     "includeDirs": "include directory to pass to preprocessor",
     "symOverride": "skip generating specified symbols",
     "pluginSourcePath": "Nim file to build and load as a plugin",
-    "preprocess": "run preprocessor on header",
-    "pgrammar": "print grammar",
-    "recurse": "process #include files",
     "debug": "enable debug output",
-    "source" : "C/C++ source/header",
+    "mode": "language parser: c or cpp",
+    "pgrammar": "print grammar",
+    "source" : "C/C++ source/header"
   }, short = {
+    "preprocess": 'p',
     "past": 'a',
     "pnim": 'n',
+    "recurse": 'r',
+    "nocomments": 'c',
     "defines": 'D',
     "includeDirs": 'I',
     "symOverride": 'O',
-    "preprocess": 'p',
-    "recurse": 'r',
     "debug": 'd',
     "pgrammar": 'g'
   })