[antlr-interest] ANTLR installation/use on Unix
Gary R. Van Sickle
g.r.vansickle at att.net
Fri Nov 28 19:28:32 PST 2008
Hi Terence et al,
Am I just getting old, or shouldn't I be able to (in a More Ideal World(tm),
of course) do something like this on a Unix-like box?:
$ cd antlr-src-distro-dir/
$ make install
$ antlr --version
ANTLR Parser Generator Version 3.1.1
[...]
???
I've read "How do I install this damn thing?" in the FAQ
(http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=728), and
unfortunately I'm still left with the original question: how do I install
this damn thing? Sure, I can untar everything to some arbitrary place, add
every JAR I find to CLASSPATH, and get this to work:
$ java org.antlr.Tool [command line params]
...but that sort of thing hasn't passed for "installing" since GPFs were
called UAEs. And of course, I don't want to run Java, I want to run ANTLR,
so why are you making me type "java" and something that looks like part of
an URL?
Am I missing something blindingly obvious? Is there a reason for the
current state of affairs? If it's a matter of Makefile/shell-script-fu, I
can help out in that area.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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