contents/using-lttng/instrumenting/c-application/lttng-gen-tp.md

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   2 id: lttng-gen-tp
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   4
   5 LTTng-UST ships with `lttng-gen-tp`, a handy command line utility for
   6 generating most of the stuff discussed above. It takes a _template file_,
   7 with a name usually ending with the `.tp` extension, containing only
   8 tracepoint definitions, and outputs a tracepoint provider (either a C
   9 source file or a precompiled object file) with its header file.
  10
  11 `lttng-gen-tp` should suffice in [static linking](#doc-static-linking)
  12 situations. When using it, write a template file containing a list of
  13 `TRACEPOINT_EVENT()` macro calls. The tool finds the provider names
  14 used and generate the appropriate files which are going to look a lot
  15 like `tp.h` and `tp.c` above.
  16
  17 Just call `lttng-gen-tp` like this:
  18
  19 <pre class="term">
  20 lttng-gen-tp my-template.tp
  21 </pre>
  22
  23 `my-template.c`, `my-template.o` and `my-template.h` are created
  24 in the same directory.
  25
  26 You may specify custom C flags passed to the compiler invoked by
  27 `lttng-gen-tp` using the `CFLAGS` environment variable:
  28
  29 <pre class="term">
  30 CFLAGS=-I/custom/include/path lttng-gen-tp my-template.tp
  31 </pre>
  32
  33 For more information on `lttng-gen-tp`, see
  34 <a href="/man/1/lttng-gen-tp/v2.7" class="ext">its man page</a>.