[antlr-interest] Objective-C and Antlr

[Alan Condit]

Jim,

I changed the subject line to try and keep it in the correct thread, sorry about that.

I guess the question then is how do you go about adding import header statements into the generated c files, so that you can use Objective C objects and messages in the tree handling code? I'd rather not have to edit them by hand everytime that I make a change to the .g file.

Also, is it possible to configure the lexer, so that you pass it a buffer, rather than a file stream? I currently have a lexer written in Objective-C that works that way, but I like the higher level lexer definition of antlr for ease of maintenance.

Alan
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On Apr 1, 2010, at 12:00 PM, antlr-interest-request at antlr.org wrote:

> 28. Objective-C and Antlr (Alan Condit)
> 29. Re: Objective-C and Antlr (Jim Idle)
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> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:29:36 -0700
> From: "Jim Idle" <jimi at temporal-wave.com>
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Objective-C and Antlr
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> Well, the C output is compatible with Objective C of course, but the ObjC target was pretty much abandoned too many years ago to be useful. I doubt that there is much advantage to using an objective C oriented target vs a straight C target to be honest.
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> Jim
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
>> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Alan Condit
>> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 8:28 AM
>> To: antlr-interest at antlr.org
>> Subject: [antlr-interest] Objective-C and Antlr
>> 
>> Is there a string template to generate Objective-C from Antlr3.2? If
>> not what version of Antlr does one need to go back to in order to get a
>> version that will generate Objective-C code?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Alan