NAME

       fastddsgen - IDL source code generator

SYNOPSIS

       fastddsgen [options] FILE.idl [FILE.idl ...]

DESCRIPTION

       fastddsgen  is  a command line tool that generates eProsima Fast DDS source code using the
       data types defined in an IDL (Interface Definition Language) file. This  generated  source
       code  can be used in any Fast DDS application in order to define the data type of a topic,
       which will later be used to publish or subscribe.

       To declare the structured data, the IDL format  must  be  used.  IDL  is  a  specification
       language,  made  by  OMG  (Object  Management  Group),  which  describes an interface in a
       language independent manner, allowing communication between software  components  that  do
       not share the same language. The eProsima Fast DDS-Gen tool reads the IDL files and parses
       a subset of the OMG IDL specification to generate source code for data serialization. This
       subset  includes  the data type descriptions included in Defining a data type via IDL. The
       rest of the file content is ignored.

OPTIONS

       -help shows the help information

       -version
              shows the current version of fastddsgen.

       -d DIR write generated files to DIR.

       -I DIR add DIR to the preprocessor include path.

       -t DIR use DIR as temporary directory

       -example PLATFORM
              generate an example to compile the generated files for a specific platform.

       -test  add a serialization test to the generated example code

       -language LANG
              select programming language (default: C++)

       -replace
              overwrite existing output files.

       -ppDisable
              disable the preprocessor.

       -ppPath CPP
              use CPP as preprocessor executable.

       -typeros2
              name generated types compliant to ROS 2 conventions.

       -typeobject
              generate TypeObject files for the IDL  and  modify  the  generated  constructor  to
              register the TypeObject representation into the type factory.

       -cs    apply case-sensitive matching to IDL grammar.

SEE ALSO

       ⟨https://fast-dds.docs.eprosima.com/en/latest/fastddsgen⟩

AUTHOR

       FastDDS  is developed by Proyectos y Sistemas de Mantenimiento SL (eProsima).  This manual
       page was written for Debian by Timo Röhling.