[antlr-interest] Question about building code generation target

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Fri Jan 16 14:06:55 PST 2009


Rick Mann wrote:
>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 13:52:22, Jim Idle wrote:
>
>> Rick Mann wrote:
>>> Maybe a different question to ask is, how do I build and run ANTLR
>>> from source? I'm running "ant run-tests" and it seems to be failing
>>> miserably.
>>>
>> Ant script is not up to date and does not know how to build ANTLR using
>> itself. Just use Maven and you will be fine.
>
> Maven it is. I'm a big fan of the Maven ant plugin. I'm not as big a 
> fan of the full-on Maven, and I'm a whiny Mac user that gets really 
> irritated when the UI isn't perfectly Mac-like, so the various Java 
> IDEs make me slightly insane (also, I can't get Eclipse to let me put 
> my sources where I want to).
Netbeans would be a lot better for you IMO, but it is all a matter of 
personal choice. For instance I find ANT a real pain but Maven is really 
easy once you get over the learning curve.
>
> But thanks! I'll try Maven!
>
>

JIm


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