[Interest] FLex / Bison and QT4 4.8.1 Win32 interaction

[william.crocker at analog.com]

On 07/07/2016 08:01 PM, Fabio Giovagnini wrote:
> Thanks Frank. So you suggest to build from the sources. I' try. Thanks again
>

I suggest you just take the weekend and write your own
parser and lexical analysis, void of Flex and Bison.
I did and I have never looked back.

:-)

Bill

> Il 07/lug/2016 17:40, "K. Frank" <kfrank29.c at gmail.com
> <mailto:kfrank29.c at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     Ciao Fabio!
>
>     On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 7:19 AM, Fabio Giovagnini <fab at gio.com
>     <mailto:fab at gio.com>> wrote:
>     >  Ciao to all.
>     >  I have an application linux native based on:
>     >  1) qt4 (4.8.1)
>     >  3) lex/bison
>     >
>     >  Under Ubuntu 14.04 and prevoius everithing ok.
>     >
>     >  Under Windows, I cannot find lex/bison support.
>     >  I have to say that I installed only QT SDK (w/ MinGW support)
>     >  Any suggestion will be really appreciated.
>
>     Windows does not come with built-in flex / bison support, nor
>     does mingw, nor (to the best of my knowledge) does Qt. (This
>     is true of a lot of unix-world libraries that are nearly universal
>     on various flavors of unix.)
>
>     I would expect (but don't know for a fact) that you could find a
>     third-party port of flex / bison to windows that you could then
>     use for your Qt / flex / bison project. In general, you would be
>     best off if you found a port built with the same compiler as your
>     Qt project (apparently mingw). One way to insure this would be
>     to build it yourself. If you're careful and know what your doing
>     you can sometimes get away with using c libraries compiled with
>     a different compiler (For example, the ms system calls were not
>     compile with mingw and you can call into those.), but it's likely to
>     be more bother trying to mix compilers than compiling something
>     like flex / bison yourself.
>
>     >  Thanks
>     >  Fabio
>
>
>     Happy Parsing!
>
>
>     K. Frank
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