[antlr-interest] Proposal to make writing language targets a biteasier

Rick Mann rmann at latencyzero.com
Mon Jan 19 18:26:29 PST 2009


On Jan 19, 2009, at 18:16:13, Sam Harwell wrote:

> Here's what I'm working on in the C# port:
>
> If a target class is not present in the executable (Antlr3.exe), it
> tries to load Antlr3.Target.<targetname>.dll, then check for the  
> target
> in there. Then it has the target return a StringTemplateGroup that  
> knows
> the location of the .stg file, whether embedded in the satellite
> assembly or located on disk.


I'm not sure I understand. Did you modify the ANTLR tool code to do  
this? I don't really know how loading, etc. works on Windows. I didn't  
see anything in the XYZTarget.java file that lets one easily change  
where to find the other bits.

I changed CodeGenerator.loadTemplates() to do it.

-- 
Rick



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