There's a simple restful API that can be used to do compiles to asm and to
list compilers. In general all handlers live in /api/* endpoints, will
accept JSON or text in POSTs, and will return text or JSON responses depending
on the request's Accept header.
At a later date there may be some form of rate-limiting: currently, requests will be queued and dealt with in the same way interactive requests are done for the main site. Authentication might be required at some point in the future (for the main Compiler Explorer site anyway).
Returns a list of the currently supported languages, as pairs of languages IDs and their names.
Returns a list of compilers. In text form, there's a simple formatting of the
ID of the compiler, its description and its language ID. In JSON, all the
information is returned as an array of compilers, with the id key being the
primary identifier of each compiler.
Returns a list of compilers for the provided language id. In text form,
there's a simple formatting of the ID of the compiler, its description and its
language ID. In JSON, all the information is returned as an array of compilers,
with the id key being the primary identifier of each compiler.
Returns a list of libraries and library versions available for the provided language id. This request only returns data in JSON.
You can use the given include paths to supply in the userArguments for compilation. (deprecated)
You will need the library id's and the version id's to supply to compile if you want to include libraries during compilation.
Returns information like Sourcecode, Compiler settings and libraries for a given link id. This request only returns data in JSON.
To specify a compilation request as a JSON document, post it as the appropriate type and send an object of the form:
{
"source": "Source to compile",
"options": {
"userArguments": "Compiler flags",
"compilerOptions": {},
"filters": {
"binary": false,
"commentOnly": true,
"demangle": true,
"directives": true,
"execute": false,
"intel": true,
"labels": true,
"libraryCode": false,
"trim": false
},
"tools": [
{"id":"clangtidytrunk", "args":"-checks=*"}
],
"libraries": [
{"id": "range-v3", "version": "trunk"},
{"id": "fmt", "version": "400"}
]
}
}Execution Only request:
{
"source": "int main () { return 1; }",
"compiler": "g82",
"options": {
"userArguments": "-O3",
"executeParameters": {
"args": ["arg1", "arg2"],
"stdin": "hello, world!"
},
"compilerOptions": {
"executorRequest": true
},
"filters": {
"execute": true
},
"tools": [],
"libraries": [
{"id": "openssl", "version": "111c"}
]
},
"lang": "c++",
"allowStoreCodeDebug": true
}The filters are a JSON object with true/false values. If not supplied,
defaults are used. If supplied, the filters are used as-is.
The compilerOptions is used to pass extra arguments to the back end, and is
probably not useful for most REST users.
To force a cache bypass, set bypassCache in the root of the request to true.
Filters include binary, labels, intel, directives and
demangle, which correspond to the UI buttons on the HTML version.
With the tools array you can ask CE to execute certain tools available for the current compiler, and also supply arguments for this tool.
Libraries can be marked to have their directories available when including
their header files. The can be listed by supplying the library ids and versions in an array.
The id's to supply can be found with the /api/libraries/<language-id>
This is same endpoint as for compilation using JSON.
A text compilation request has the source as the body of the post, and uses
query parameters to pass the options and filters. Filters are supplied as a
comma-separated string. Use the query parameter filters=XX to set the
filters directly, else addFilters=XX to add a filter to defaults,
or removeFilters to remove from defaults.
Compiler parameters should be passed as options=-O2 and default to empty.
The text request is designed for simplicity for command-line clients like curl
$ curl 'https://godbolt.org/api/compiler/g63/compile?options=-Wall' --data-binary 'int foo() { return 1; }'
# Compilation provided by Compiler Explorer at godbolt.org
foo():
push rbp
mov rbp, rsp
mov eax, 1
pop rbp
retIf JSON is present in the request's Accept header, the compilation results
are of the form:
(Optional values are marked with a **)
{
"code": 0 if successful, else compiler return code,
"stdout": [
{
"text": Output,
** "tag": {
"line": Source line,
"text": Parsed error for that line
}
},
...
],
"stderr": (format is similar to that of stdout),
"asm": [
{
"text": Assembly text,
"source": {file: null for user input, else path, line: number} or null if none
},
...
],
"tools": [],
"okToCache": true if output could be locally cached else false,
** "optOutput" : {
"displayString" : String displayed in output,
"Pass" : [ Missed | Passed | Analysis ] (Specifies the type of optimisation output),
"Name" : Name of the output (mostly represents the reason for the output),
"DebugLoc" : {
"File": Name of file,
"Line": Line number,
"Column": Column number in line
},
"Function": Name of function for which optimisation output is provided,
"Args": Array of objects representing the arguments that the optimiser used when trying to optimise
}
}The body of this post should be in the format of a ClientState Be sure that the Content-Type of your post is application/json
An example of one the easiest forms of a clientstate:
{
"sessions": [
{
"id": 1,
"language": "c++",
"source": "int main() { return 42; }",
"compilers": [
{
"id": "g82",
"options": "-O3"
}
],
"executors": [
{
"arguments": "arg1",
"compiler": {
"id": "g92",
"libs": [],
"options": "-O3"
},
"stdin": ""
}
]
}
]
}Returns:
{
"url": "https://godbolt.org/z/Km_340"
}The storedId can be used in the api call /api/shortlinkinfo/ and to open in the website with a /z/ shortlink.
This call opens the website in a state that was previously saved using the built-in shortener.
This call returns plain/text for the code that was previously saved using the built-in shortener.
If there were multiple editors during the saved session, you can retreive them by setting to 1, 2, 3, etcetera, otherwise can be set to 1.
This call is to open the website with a given state (without having to store the state first with /shortener) Instead of sending the ClientState JSON in the post body, it will have to be encoded with base64 and attached directly onto the URL.
Here are some examples of projects using the Compiler Explorer API:
- Commandline CE by ethanhs (Rust)
- VIM plugin by ldrumm
- API in Delphi by partouf (Delphi)
- QTCreator Plugin by dobokirisame (C++)
- CLion plugin by ogrebenyuk (Java)