[antlr-interest] Visual Studio plugin for ANTLR grammar files

Jim Idle jimi at temporal-wave.com
Fri Apr 2 08:40:24 PDT 2010


OK -= I'll let you update your stuff and see if it saves me any time making it work for C and 2010.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sam Harwell [mailto:sharwell at pixelminegames.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 8:33 AM
> To: Jim Idle; ANTLR Interest
> Subject: RE: [antlr-interest] Visual Studio plugin for ANTLR grammar
> files
> 
> It didn't need any changes to work with C# projects with 2010. I'm
> using
> it for my experimental language support in 2010. C code poses an
> interesting problem of include directories. Perhaps you can output them
> to:
> 
> $(IntermediateOutputDir)\Antlr\[GrammarName]\[GrammarName.h]
> 
> And then have it add obj\Debug\Antlr to the #include search
> directories.
> 
> The AntlrBuildTasks.dll MSBuild tasks assembly will be the same for the
> CSharp3 and C targets. However, a new Antlr3.C.targets file or similar
> will probably be much easier to maintain than a shared one for multiple
> languages.
> 
> I'll try to put up a new build within the next couple days so people
> can
> try this with more projects.
> 
> Sam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
> [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Jim Idle
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:16 AM
> To: ANTLR Interest
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Visual Studio plugin for ANTLR grammar
> files
> 
> Did you updates this for VS2010 yet Sam? The C build system seems to
> use
> MSBUILD in vs2010 to, so I would suggest that we take your code out of
> the C# specific tree and my vs2008 C build rule files out of the C tree
> and create a buildsystems tree or something similar.  I (or you if you
> prefer to own it) can then adapt your current integration to select
> between C or C# on vs201, as my feeling is that the will be very
> similar
> (other htan I have a header file to deal with as well).
> 
> Jim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> > bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Sam Harwell
> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:34 PM
> > To: Shawn Poulson; ANTLR Interest
> > Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Visual Studio plugin for ANTLR grammar
> > files
> >
> > Hi Shawn,
> >
> > I went the route of tying it into MSBuild. The generated file is
> placed
> > in the intermediate output directory (often obj\Debug or
> obj\Release).
> > This system properly handles dependent grammars (eg. tree grammars
> are
> > automatically recompiled when the lexer defining the tokens is
> > recompiled). The latest source is in source control as the
> > AntlrBuildTask project that's part of the C# 3 port. I still need to
> > post an updated set of binaries for it since I fixed several bugs.
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org
> > [mailto:antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Shawn Poulson
> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 6:36 PM
> > To: ANTLR Interest
> > Subject: [antlr-interest] Visual Studio plugin for ANTLR grammar
> files
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been working on and off with ANTLR over the past couple years
> and
> > one
> > thing that always got me, not being a Java developer, was trying to
> > remember
> > how to call ANTLR to compile my grammars to C#.  Moreover, I really
> > wanted
> > it to be part of Visual Studio so that it generated code from the
> > grammar on
> > change, like a Makefile.  I searched around and couldn't find any
> such
> > tool
> > that already existed.
> >
> >
> >
> > Visual Studio has an API that allows you to create your own code
> > generators,
> > so I took a shot at it.  I have a working proof of concept that works
> > as
> > you
> > would expect.  The generated code files are seen as child nodes
> hanging
> > off
> > the grammar file.  I was curious if anyone were willing to give it a
> > shot
> > and let me know how it works for them.  I'd like to package it up
> into
> > an
> > installer and put the source up on something like github or ohloh.
> Any
> > input would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Shawn Poulson
> >
> > spoulson at explodingcoder.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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