glsl-parser

glsl-parser is an offline GLSL parser which can be used to do many things with GLSL source code.

The straight-forward API allows you to parse GLSL into an abstact-syntax-tree in only a couple lines, for example

glsl::parser parse(sourceCode);
glsl::astTU *translationUnit = parse.parse(astTU::kFragment);
if (translationUnit) {
    // Do something with the AST here
} else {
    // A parse error occured
    fprintf(stderr, "%s\n", parse.error());
}

A test-suite and GLSL source-generator is included to get you started.

Check out the superior diagnostics here

Known limitations

• Does not support preprocessor directives
  • Does support #version and #extension though.
• Does not handle new-line termination with the backslack character \
• Not all of GLSL is supported, if you run into a missing feature open an issue.
• None of the builtin functions or variables are provided, you must provide those yourself.

Possible uses

• Verify a shader without running it
• Find hard-to-find syntax or semantic errors with the superior diagnostics
• Extend GLSL
• Transcompile GLSL to other languages
• Quickly check or verify something
• Optimize shaders
• Generate introspection information

Portable and embeddable

• Written in portable C++03.
  • Only uses std::vector from the standard library
• Exception free
• Doesn't use virtual functions
• Small (~90 KB)
• Permissive (MIT)