[antlr-interest] Re: c# code generation with Visual Studio .NET

[micheal_jor]

--- In antlr-interest at yahoogroups.com, "Ney, Richard" 
<richard.ney at a...> wrote:
> Patrik,

> The work around I did was to setup a menu item in the Tools menu of 
the IDE.
> This at least allows me to select a .g file and compile it. Until 
someone
> has the time to write the add-in for .NET languages this is the 
best we have
> at this time.

VS.NET's CustomTool model (for code-generators) is limited because it 
only allows the generation of a single source file for each input 
file. It does not support a code generator - like ANTLR - that can 
generate *multiple* outputSourceCode files from a single 
codegenSource file.

Given that *most* ANTLR grammar files are indeed multi-ouput, we 
decided against developing a VS.NET CustomTool interface for ANTLR/C# 
for the moment. Any such interface would be limited to a outputting a 
single source file per *.g file and we didn't fancy having our 
Lexers, Parsers and TreeParsers all pop out in the same *huge* source 
file.

I haven't look at VS.NET 2003 yet in any great detail as far as this 
issue in considered so, there may be hope yet.

Cheers,

Micheal
ANTLR/C# codegen 



 

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