[Mono-list] writing an interpreter in c#

[Kunle Odutola]

Stuart,

You could try ANTLR. It's an LL(k) parser generator [Coco/R is essentially
LL(1) if memory serves] that generates human-readable recursive descent
lexers/parsers/treeparsers in C#, Java and C++.

One way of writing an interpreter with ANTLR is to develop a Lexer grammar
and a Parser grammar as usual as well as a TreeParser grammar. The
TreeParser walks the syntax trees (usually ASTs) built for your source files
by your ANTLR grammar and executes action code that performs the actual
"interpretation". An AST "executor" if you will.

http://tros.org/portfolio/#Interpreter - Interpreter built with ANTLR/C++
http://nexus.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/course/652/
(See http://nexus.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/course/652/labs/interp.html for a
sample interpreter built with ANTLR/Java )

Alternatively you can simply add action code to your Parser grammar to build
your ASTs in your current manner. You can then continue to use whatever
techniques you are familiar with once the AST has been built.

You can find ANTLR at www.antlr.org

Good luck,

Kunle
ANTLR/C# codegen


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> Sent: 18 May 2003 01:19
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> Subject: [Mono-list] writing an interpreter in c#
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>
> Hi,
>         I'm wanting to write an interpreter in C# on my linux machine.
> I have been looking at the mono source for help on this project. I have
> come across a project called Coco/R for C# to generate a scanner and
> parser, but I have been unable to figure out how to get that working on
> a linux machine. I thought maybe I needed to get CLI for linux. I'm trying
> to install it, but it gives me an error:
>
> $ ./buildall
> ...
> PAL build complete.
> gcc -o
> /home/stuart/tmp/sscli_linux_20020821/build/v1.x86fstchk.rotor/nmake
> /usr/lib/crti.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/crtbegin.o
> ../../pal/unix/startup/objdf/palcrt1.o   getrcmsg.o  action.o  build.o
> charmap.o  command.o  error.o  exec.o  file.o  globals.o
> ifexpr.o  init.o
> inline.o  lexer.o  macro.o  nmake.o  parser.o  print.o  rpn.o
> rule.o  util.o
> utilp.o  win32.o /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/crtend.o
> /usr/lib/crtn.o  -nostartfiles -pthread
> -L/home/stuart/tmp/sscli_linux_20020821/build/v1.x86fstchk.rotor
> -lrotor_pal
> -L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2 -lgcc
> action.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
> build.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
> command.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
> error.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
> exec.o(.eh_frame+0x11): undefined reference to `__gxx_personality_v0'
> ifexpr.o(.eh_frame+0x11): more undefined references to
> `__gxx_personality_v0' follow
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: ***
> [/home/stuart/tmp/sscli_linux_20020821/build/v1.x86fstchk.rotor/nmake]
> Error 1
>
> Please let me know if you know how to debug this error or if you have any
> suggestions/references/etc for
> my project (writing an interpreter for a Maya Embedded Language
> in C# on a linux
> computer). Any help
> would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Stuart
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