[antlr-interest] Re: ANTLR Works and compiler settings...

Rob Greene robgreene at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 04:58:29 PDT 2006


Update:

After sending my email, I realized that I did have a 1.4 JDK installed, and
that does work.

So, maybe this is a report that the Java code generation does not compile
without tweaking under Java 5.0.  :-)

Thanks!
-Rob

On 4/13/06, Rob Greene <robgreene at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a trick to getting ANTLR Works to compile a grammer and working
> in the debugger?
>
> When I have com.sun.tools.javac selected, I get the following error:
> "Compiler exception: com.sun.tools.javac.Main"
>
> When I have javac (but not path) selected, I get: "Compiler exception:
> CreateProcess javac -classpath ... error=2"
>
> When I have javac with path to Java 5.0, I get: "Cannot launch the
> debugger.  Time-out waiting to connect to the remote user." and the console
> shows:
>     [23:10:34] Note: C:\Temp\ANTLR\BasicBasic.java uses unchecked or
> unsafe operations.
>     [23:10:34] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
>     [23:10:41] Launch with path
> =C:\Temp\ANTLR\classes;C:\Temp\ANTLR\antlrworks- 1.0ea8.jar
> ;C:\Temp\ANTLR\antlrworks-1.0ea8.jar;.
>
> Does the Java code generated work with Java 5.0?  (Yes, I do get java
> files created.)  Do I need to downgrade to Java 1.4 while developing in
> ANTLR Works?
>
> Besides that, this has a lot of promise.  I'm hoping that once the
> debugger is functional, I will be able to actually run the grammar against a
> file and see whatever output I need to produce?  Is ANTLR v3 considered
> stable enough that I should use that, still as a beginner, over v2?
>
> Thanks!
> -Rob
>
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