[antlr-interest] DFA display in ANTLRWorks not working on MacOSX

Thomas Nilsson thomas.nilsson at responsive.se
Thu Aug 19 14:23:28 PDT 2010


Thanks for the suggestions. For me not even 2.26.3 did work, GraphViz popped the same message but this version also prompted me for a file to open.

So I followed Jim Idles suggestion and pointed ANTLRWorks to /usr/local/bin/dot and everything worked ok! (Well, except my grammar ;-)

Thomas Nilsson, CTO, Agile Mentor
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19 aug 2010 kl. 22.26 skrev Alan Condit:

> Thomas,
> 
> It works fine for me, but I am using Graphviz 2.26.3. You can get it from here <http://www.graphviz.org/pub/graphviz/stable/macos/snowleopard/graphviz-2.26.3.pkg>.
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> Alan
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> On Aug 19, 2010, at 12:00 PM, antlr-interest-request at antlr.org wrote:
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>> From: Thomas Nilsson <thomas.nilsson at responsive.se>
>> Date: August 19, 2010 10:14:00 AM PDT
>> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
>> Subject: [antlr-interest] DFA display in ANTLRWorks not working on MacOSX
>> 
>> 
>> I am in the process of converting an old-ish LR-grammar to work with ANTLRs LL-principles which is an interesting, but educational, journey.
>> 
>> I'm running on MacOSX and looking at my single remaining non-LL(*) decision and was hoping to get some help from the DFA. unfortunatley displaying it does not work. When asked to produce the DFA, GraphViz pops up a message like "DOTxxxx.out could not be opened. GraphViz cannot open this kind of file." The message is then repeated for the ".in"-file.
>> 
>> ANTLRWorks preferences seems to be pointing in the right direction, as some other graphs are produced alright. (Although I do not know if ANTLRWorks uses GraphViz for that...)
>> 
>> I'm using latest ANTLRWorks (bundled, but has also tried the jar), and have latest GraphViz (2.20.3 from 2008) for MacOSX.
>> 
>> Anyone have any clue, or hint on what to try?
>> 
>> Thomas Nilsson, CTO, Agile Mentor
>> Responsive Development Technologies AB
>> Web: http://www.responsive.se
>> Email: thomas.nilsson at responsive.se
>> Phone: +46 70 561 75 41
>> Blog: http://www.responsive.se/thomas
>> 
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