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Yarik Ustinov
Yarik Ustinov

Reputation: 21

How to integrate ANTLR 4 in a C++ application

Recently I picked up a copy of The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference and since I am sophisticated when it comes to working with grammars and languages I wanted to work on my DSL I once have written using yacc and bison. The general idea is to write a translator (with included validation for type safety(1)) which translates the DSL to JavaScript during runtime which is then executed by v8.

Although ANTLR was designed for inclusion in Java applications I would like to stay with native C++. Can ANTLR 4 produce such a C parser/lexer(2) which I can include using a C++-style wrapper? And how to do so?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 771

Answers (1)

John Zwinck
John Zwinck

Reputation: 249123

Yes, ANTLR 4 can target C++: https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/blob/master/doc/cpp-target.md

So could ANTLR 2. There were some dark days in between when ANTLR 3 could not target C++, but thankfully those are behind us now.

Upvotes: 2

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