[antlr-interest] Using ANTLR with Eclipse

Mark Volkmann r.mark.volkmann at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 15:28:55 PST 2008


On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Felix Dorner <felix_do at web.de> wrote:
> Hey Mark,
>
>  I started using Antlr / Antlrworks yesterday, and also use Eclipse for
>  my developement. I directly installed the antlr3 ant task, so all I do
>  with Antlrworks is edit the grammar files (which are part of a project
>  in my workspace). Everything else is managed from within Eclipse within
>  Ant tasks, no need for any other antlr plugins. To me this works quite
>  fine.

I must not be googling well today. I can't find documentation on the
ANTLR Ant tasks. Anybody know where that is?

Aren't you giving up features of ANTLRWorks like the graphical
debugger by taking your approach?

>  Felix
>
>  Mark Edgeworth wrote:
>  > Hi again,
>  >
>  > I use Eclipse almost exclusively for all my development work, most of which
>  > is in Java.  I have been reasonably successful in using the ANTLR plugin
>  > from Scott Stanchfield, but the version of ANTLR in the plugin is 3.0.1 and
>  > I'd like to move on.  However, looks like he got upset over something and is
>  > not playing ANTLR anymore (the plugin source is not available for a rebuild
>  > either).  There is another plugin from 'Certiv' which again uses ANTLR 3.0.1
>  > in the plugin (as of 0.30.beta).
>  >
>  > Any suggestions are most welcome!
>  >
>  > Incidentally, I hardly ever use ANTLRWorks as it does not play well with
>  > Eclipse and the plugin mentioned above.  Are there plans to port ANTLRWorks
>  > to Eclipse?
>  >
>  > Many thanks,
>  >
>  > Mark Edgeworth
>  >
>
>



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