[Interest] FLex / Bison and QT4 4.8.1 Win32 interaction

[Konstantin Tokarev]

08.07.2016, 05:27, "william.crocker at analog.com" <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.
>
> :-)

If you advice to reinvent the wheel, it's bad advice. But it makes sense
to know alternatives which may be easier to use or more convenient to work
with. For example, I very much like re2c lexer, it is simple, fast, and
can be used in ad-hoc manner inside regular c++ sources.

>
> 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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Konstantin