[antlr-interest] binary executable for ANTLR tool

[Benjamin Niemann]

Benjamin Niemann wrote:

> Terence Parr wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Jun 15, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Benjamin Niemann wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Terence Parr wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anybody wanna build windows / linux / mac binaries for ANTLR tool
>>>> itself?  I couldn't even get GCJ on my mac.  I'm trying to find a gcj
>>>> binary for linux so I can make an ANTLR binary.  Why is GCJ hard so
>>>> hard to find/download?  Must be because it doesn't work.
>>>
>>> "apt-get install gcj" for me. Which dist are you using?
>> 
>> some fedora thing at school and 10.4.9 os x on my laptop.
>> 
>>> I somehow remember, someone (you?) posted some build instructions
>>> for gcj
>>> somewhere...
>> 
>> someone posted to a blog and i put into bug list to do.
>> 
>> http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=94
> 
> yeah, just stumbled upon ANTLR-132, too :)
> I'll give it a try

I was not able to get it working as described. The last command did not work
for me, I had to compile antlr-3.0.jar as a lib, too, and then link all
three libs. But the resulting executable segfaulted :(
My gcj version is "gcj (GCC) 4.1.3 20070601 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-12)"

I was able to get a statically linked version though using the following
sequence:

export CLASSPATH=antlr-2.7.7.jar:stringtemplate-3.0.jar
gcj -fPIC -O3 -c antlr-2.7.7.jar -o antlr-2.7.7.o
gcj -fPIC -O3 -c stringtemplate-3.0.jar -o stringtemplate-3.0.o
gcj -fPIC -O3 -c antlr-3.0.jar -o antlr-3.0.o
gcj --main=org.antlr.Tool antlr-2.7.7.o stringtemplate-3.0.o antlr-3.0.o \
  -o antlr3
strip antlr3

Fetch the resulting file from
<http://testbox.puppetmaster.homelinux.org/antlr3> and try, if it works on
your system (will need some gcc/gcj libs, packages libgcj7-1 on debian,
other stuff should be fairly standard).

Anybody feel free to suggest improvements that's the first time I used gcj.

-- 
Benjamin Niemann
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