[antlr-interest] Antlr-2.7.6 with Visual Studio 8.0

[Mark Kattenbelt]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for sharing that. I've updated that file, which indeed causes an 
error when NO_STATIC_CONSTS is defined. Initially I kept trying to 
compile without NO_STATIC_CONSTS defined (as this shouldn't be a problem 
for any newish compiler), but this gives a lot of problems when linking. 
This is because most static const int's are initialized in the class 
declaration, which I dont think is the correct way. Even with some 
tweaking there was no way I could get VS to compile antlr without 
setting NO_STATIC_CONSTS.

However, with your fix and that define I've managed to make a dynamic 
library. Hopefully this will work well.

I do think antlr should be a bit more user friendly towards visual 
studio users.

Cheers,

Mark
> Mark,
>
> If it is any help, I built a static library (.lib) using 2.7.6 with 
> the command line.
>
> /Od /I "C:\Development\antlr\antlr-2.7.6\lib\cpp\\" /D "WIN32" /D 
> "_DEBUG" /D "_LIB" /D "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" /D 
> "_VC80_UPGRADE=0x0600" /D "_MBCS" /FD /EHsc /RTC1 /MDd /Zc:wchar_t- 
> /Zc:forScope- /GR- /Fp".\Debug/antlr_lib.pch" /Fo".\Debug/" 
> /Fd".\Debug/" /FR".\Debug\\" /W3 /nologo /c /Z7 /errorReport:prompt
>
> There is a change in TokenStreamRewriteEngine.cpp (already submitted 
> to Ter)
>
> #ifndef NO_STATIC_CONSTS
> const size_t TokenStreamRewriteEngine::MIN_TOKEN_INDEX = 0;
> const int TokenStreamRewriteEngine::PROGRAM_INIT_SIZE = 100;
> #endif
>
>
> At 10:40 14/03/2006, Mark Kattenbelt wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been trying to compile a dll of antlr 2.7.6 in Visual Studio 
>> 2005, so far unsuccessfully.
>> In mingw, I manage to compile it fine, only took a few minutes to set 
>> up! I use the following settings for VS:
>>
>> Include dir: "lib\cpp"
>> Preprocessor: WIN32;_DEBUG;_WINDOWS;_USRDLL;ANTLR_EXPORTS
>> Run-time library: Multi-treaded debug.
>> Create precompiled headers: yes.
>> Function level linking: yes.
>> RTTI: yes.
>>
>> Which results into compiling with the following line:
>>
>> /O2 /I "lib\cpp" /D "WIN32" /D "_DEBUG" /D "_WINDOWS" /D "_USRDLL" /D 
>> "ANTLR_EXPORTS" /D "_WINDLL" /FD /EHsc /MTd /Gy /Yc 
>> /Fp"Debug\antlr-2.7.6.pch" /Fo"Debug\\" /Fd"Debug\vc80.pdb" /nologo 
>> /c /TP /errorReport:prompt
>>
>> And linking with:
>>
>> /OUT:"d:\Fmt\antlr-2.7.6\Debug\antlr-2.7.6.dll" /NOLOGO /DLL 
>> /MANIFEST /MANIFESTFILE:"Debug\antlr-2.7.6.dll.intermediate.manifest" 
>> /ASSEMBLYDEBUG /ERRORREPORT:PROMPT kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib 
>> winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib 
>> oleaut32.lib uuid.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib
>>
>> Now this fails during the linking stage, in particular it keeps 
>> finding symbols that are defined in multiple places:
>>
>> ASTFactory.obj : error LNK2005: "class std::basic_istream<char,struct 
>> std::char_traits<char> > & __cdecl antlr::eatwhite(class 
>> std::basic_istream<char,struct std::char_traits<char> > &)" 
>> (?eatwhite at antlr@@YAAAV?$basic_istream at DU?$char_traits at D@std@@@std@@AAV23@@Z) 
>> already defined in ANTLRUtil.obj
>> ASTFactory.obj : error LNK2005: "class std::basic_string<char,struct 
>> std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> > __cdecl 
>> antlr::read_string(class std::basic_istream<char,struct 
>> std::char_traits<char> > &)" ...
>>
>> I have tried to compile without precompiled headers, because I do not 
>> see the need for them, this results in:
>>
>> MismatchedCharException.obj : error LNK2005: "public: static int 
>> const antlr::MismatchedCharException::CHAR" 
>> (?CHAR at MismatchedCharException@antlr@@2HB) already defined in 
>> CharScanner.obj
>> MismatchedCharException.obj : error LNK2005: "public: static int 
>> const antlr::MismatchedCharException::NOT_CHAR" 
>> (?NOT_CHAR at MismatchedCharException@antlr@@2HB) already defined in 
>> CharScanner.obj
>> MismatchedCharException.obj : error LNK2005: "public: static int 
>> const antlr::MismatchedCharException::RANGE" 
>> (?RANGE at MismatchedCharException@antlr@@2HB) already defined in 
>> CharScanner.obj
>>
>> Clearly I am doing something wrong, and the settings need tweaking. 
>> Has anyone here managed to build antlr (2.7.6?) with Visual Studio 
>> (8.0?). If so could you please share your settings? Any help is 
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Also, trying to compile it into a static library does not offer any 
>> relief, the errors still persist.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark Kattenbelt
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Mike
>
>
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> Double V Design & Support Services
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