[antlr-interest] antlr jar dependency

[Chris Black]

You could use an obfuscator with dead code removal like proguard to trim 
all unneeded classes, methods and fields with respect to what you 
actually use. This would make creating a trimmed down jar easier.

Chris

Akhilesh Mritunjai wrote:

>Hi
>
>Short answer: No
>
>Long answer: Not everything in antlr.jar is actually
>needed for runtime. There is also a separate antlr
>runtime jar file floating somewhere that containes
>only the classes needed at runtime.
>
>Basically, you can load the generate files in
>eclipse/IDEA/netbeans/whatever and remove unncessary
>imports. Then just pack the ones left, and ship your
>product.
>
>I looked at it sometime back, and needed class file
>were south of 100kB or so.
>
>- Akhilesh
>
>--- Alessandro Di Bella <aldib at fuurou.org> wrote:
>
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>
>>Hi,
>>I'm new to ANTLR and I need to write a parser that
>>needs to be shipped within 
>>an applet. Because of size restrictions, I was
>>wondering if there was a way 
>>of generating code that did not rely at runtime on
>>the antlr.jar file (like 
>>javacc does).
>>
>>Thanks
>>
>>Alessandro 
>>
>>    
>>
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