| Waxeye Parser Generator | | v 0.7.0 | | www.waxeye.org | | Copyright © 2008 Orlando D. A. R. Hill |
What is Waxeye?
Waxeye makes language development easy and fun. With Waxeye, you can rapidly explore ideas for the syntax of your language.
Whether you are creating a full programming language, a domain-specific language or just a simple data format, Waxeye will get you there faster.
Features
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Scanner-less Parsing
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Language Independent, Reusable Grammars
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Modular, Composable Grammars
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Grammar Testing
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Automatic AST Generation
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Choice of Programming Language
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C
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Java
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Python
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Ruby
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Scheme
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User Manual
Waxeye’s user manual is in ‘docs/manual.html’. The latest version is also online at waxeye.org/manual.html.
Installation
Unix, OSX:
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Extract the files of the distribution.
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Copy the ‘waxeye’ directory to where you wish to install it.
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Add the ‘bin/waxeye’ binary to your search path. e.g. If you have ‘~/bin’ in your PATH and installed waxeye to ‘/usr/local/waxeye’ then you might do the following. ln -s /usr/local/waxeye/bin/waxeye ~/bin/
Windows:
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Extract the files of the distribution.
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Copy the ‘waxeye’ directory to where you wish to install it.
Building
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Install MzScheme v4; either with DrScheme or alone. download.plt-scheme.org
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Install Waxeye’s backend for PLT Scheme. Unix, OSX: sudo ln -s /usr/local/waxeye/src/scheme/waxeye /usr/local/plt/lib/plt/collects/
Windows: Copy the directory ‘src/scheme/waxeye’ into your PLT-Scheme ‘collects’ directory. For example, that might be ‘C:Program FilesPLTcollects’.
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Build Waxeye Unix, OSX: ./build/unix
Windows:
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If your PLT-Scheme installation isn’t ‘C:Program FilesPLT’ then you will
need to modify ‘buildexe.bat’ to use the correct path.
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From your Waxeye installation directory, run the ‘buildexe.bat’ script in a
command prompt.
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When the script has finished, press ‘y’ then ‘Enter’ to remove the
temporary files.
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Running
Unix, OSX: Use ‘waxeye’.
Windows: Use a command prompt to run ‘waxeye.exe`. Note: If using the interpreter under Windows, you will need to press ’Ctrl-z’ and then ‘Enter’ after the input you want to interpret.
License
MIT/X11 - All files (except the user manual) are under the permissive MIT/X11 license.
GNU FDL - Waxeye’s user manual is under the GNU Free Documentation License. This includes the files ‘doc/book/book’ and ‘doc/manual.html’.
Support
Feel free to contact me, if you are having trouble or want to give feedback.
Either email me directly: orlandodarhill at Gmail.com
Or signup and post on the mailing list: lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/waxeye-users