Koala Tools

XT -- A Bundle of Program Transformation Tools

Description

The Koala-tools package is a collection of tools operating on the Koala component definition language as developed by Philips Research.

Koala is a component definition language used by Philips consumer electroniccs to model components (as C modules), composition (as C compilation and linking), and variability (as CPP macros and partial evaluation).

The Koala component model consists of a component language, which supports definition of:

interfaces (both required and provided)
data types
components
diversity (by means of a diversity interfaces)
component compositions

Component compositions consist of collections of components and wires that connect provides and requires interfaces (see picture below).

Contents

The koala-tools package includes:

The Koala language definition in SDF
A Koala component flattener (pack-koala)
An automatic wiring tool (koala-wire)
A Koala composition visualizer (koala-graph)
A Koala analyzer (koala-analyze)
A generic koala compiler toolkit (koala-compiler)
A Composition tool for Source Tree Composition (koala-tred, koala-buildorder + koala-build-composer + koala-tree-composer)

Contact

Rob van Ommering about mainstream Koala development
Merijn de Jonge About koala-tools package

Documentation

Official publications about Koala include:

Rob van Ommering and Frank van der Linden and Jeff Kramer and Jeff Magee. The Koala Component Model for Consumer Electronics. IEEE Software Computer, 33(3), pp. 78-85, March 2000.

Below are some slides about Koala-tools:

Availability

The koala-tools package is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License It is available in source from:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mdejonge/downloads/koala-tools-0.2.tar.gz
This is the source distribution of the koala-tools package.
http://www.cs.uu.nl/~mdejonge/downloads/koala-demo-0.2.tar.gz
This package demonstrates Source Tree Composition with Koala (see KoalaCompiler). It demonstrates building the koala-tools package as a Koala composition.

Dependencies

The koala-tools package has the following dependencies:

These packages need to be installed before building koala-tools

Installation

    tar zxvf koala-tools-0.2.tar.gz
    tar zxvf koala-demo-0.2.tar.g
    cd koala-tools-0.2
    ./configure --with-xt=<location of stratgoxt> --prefix=<installation prefix>
    make
    make install

    cd ../koala-demo-0.2
    ./configure
    make

-- MerijnDeJonge - 17 Feb 2004