[antlr-interest] MSBUILD/Vs2008

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Wed Oct 7 11:34:19 PDT 2009


Cool. Perhps you can put this in the Wiki artivcle?

 

One question - when I have 3 grammar files in the project, is that just the one ItemGroup or multiple, one per .g file?

 

Jim

 

From: Sam Harwell [mailto:sharwell at pixelminegames.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 11:29 AM
To: Jim Idle; antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] MSBUILD/Vs2008

 

I disabled the clean due to problems with P4 having the generated files readonly on disk. You can use it as a base for future improvements if you want.

 

This forces the correct build order so you only have to build once (I included the import line just so you see where I placed it). This configuration uses the C# port of the tool to generate grammars.

 

  <PropertyGroup>

    <!-- This forces the correct build order since ANTLR tool generates .cs files -->

    <UseHostCompilerIfAvailable>False</UseHostCompilerIfAvailable>

  </PropertyGroup>

  <Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />

  <PropertyGroup>

    <Antlr3ToolPath>$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\..\bin\Bootstrap</Antlr3ToolPath>

    <CoreCompileDependsOn>$(CoreCompileDependsOn);GenerateAntlrCode</CoreCompileDependsOn>

    <CoreCleanDependsOn>$(CoreCleanDependsOn);CleanAntlrCode</CoreCleanDependsOn>

    <PostBuildEvent>

    </PostBuildEvent>

  </PropertyGroup>

  <Target Name="GenerateAntlrCode" Inputs="@(Antlr3)" Outputs="%(OutputFiles)">

    <Message Importance="normal" Text="Antlr: Transforming '@(Antlr3)' to '%(Antlr3.OutputFiles)'" />

    <!--<Exec Command="java -cp %22$(Antlr3ToolPath)\antlr3.jar;$(Antlr3ToolPath)\antlr-2.7.7.jar;$(Antlr3ToolPath)\stringtemplate-3.1b1.jar%22 org.antlr.Tool -lib %22%(RootDir)%(Directory).%22 -message-format vs2005 @(Antlr3)" Outputs="%(OutputFiles)" />-->

    <Exec Command="%22$(Antlr3ToolPath)\Antlr3.exe%22 -Xconversiontimeout 5000 -lib %22%(RootDir)%(Directory).%22 -message-format vs2005 @(Antlr3)" Outputs="%(OutputFiles)" />

  </Target>

  <Target Name="CleanAntlrCode">

    <ItemGroup>

      <_CleanAntlrFileWrites Include="@(Antlr3->'%(RelativeDir)%(Filename).tokens')" />

    </ItemGroup>

    <Message Importance="normal" Text="Antlr: Deleting output files '@(_CleanAntlrFileWrites)'" />

    <!-- NOT FULLY TESTED: Uncomment this line to actually delete grammar outputs on clean. -->

    <!--<Delete Files="@(_CleanAntlrFileWrites)" />-->

  </Target>

 

Here is my msbuild items for a lexer grammar:

 

  <ItemGroup>

    <Antlr3 Include="Grammars\ActionAnalysisLexer.g3">

      <OutputFiles>Grammars\ActionAnalysisLexer.cs;Grammars\ActionAnalysisLexer.tokens</OutputFiles>

    </Antlr3>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ActionAnalysisLexer.cs">

      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>

      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>

      <DependentUpon>ActionAnalysisLexer.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ActionAnalysisLexerHelper.cs">

      <DependentUpon>ActionAnalysisLexer.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

  </ItemGroup>

 

For a combined grammar:

 

  <ItemGroup>

    <Antlr3 Include="Grammars\ANTLR.g3">

      <OutputFiles>Grammars\ANTLRParser.cs;Grammars\ANTLRLexer.cs;Grammars\ANTLR.tokens</OutputFiles>

      <CopyToOutputDirectory>Always</CopyToOutputDirectory>

    </Antlr3>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRParser.cs">

      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>

      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>

      <DependentUpon>ANTLR.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRParserHelper.cs">

      <DependentUpon>ANTLR.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRLexer.cs">

      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>

      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>

      <DependentUpon>ANTLR.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRLexerHelper.cs">

      <DependentUpon>ANTLR.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

  </ItemGroup>

 

A tree grammar:

 

  <ItemGroup>

    <Antlr3 Include="Grammars\ANTLRTreePrinter.g3">

      <OutputFiles>Grammars\ANTLRTreePrinter.cs;Grammars\ANTLRTreePrinter.tokens</OutputFiles>

    </Antlr3>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRTreePrinter.cs">

      <AutoGen>True</AutoGen>

      <DesignTime>True</DesignTime>

      <DependentUpon>ANTLRTreePrinter.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

    <Compile Include="Grammars\ANTLRTreePrinterHelper.cs">

      <DependentUpon>ANTLRTreePrinter.g3</DependentUpon>

    </Compile>

  </ItemGroup>

 

Sam

 

From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Jim Idle
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 1:15 PM
To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Subject: [antlr-interest] MSBUILD/Vs2008

 

Has anyone worked out the exact configuration for MSBUILD instructions for adding in to csproj files in VS2008 with the C# target? The Wiki version may have worked fine for VS2005 but in VS2008 it does not encapsulate dependencies properly and the .cs files get compiled before the .g files, which means you have to build twice. Also, it does not cover 'clean' and 'rebuild' etc. I suspect that this is easy to work out for someone that already knows MSBUILD well, but I don't and don't particularly want to spend the time doing so right now ;-)

 

Cheers,

 

Jim



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