[mono-vb] Building MonoBasic compiler

[Rob.Tillie@Student.tUL.EDU]

> It seems that you don't have cygwin installed, to simply run make in
> mcs/jay, and let gcc compile that little utility. Jay wasn't ported =
to C#,
> instead it was revised to support generating parsers in C#.

Ok, maybe it's a good time to install cygwin...

> Without cygwin/gcc, you'll have to decode the makefile to know how =
build
> it
> with any c compiler you may have available in windows (msvc, =
c++builder,
> ...).
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> To build mbas you need to have a jay.exe to be able to construct the
> parser
> class source (mb-parser.cs) from the grammar rules file =
(mb-parser.jay),
> before compiling with the c# compiler.

Yes, I remembered that from my 'Tiger' adventure at school...
Thanks for clearing up the jay thing!

Greetz,
-- Rob.

> Hope it helps,
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> Rafael "Monoman" Teixeira
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> >From: Rob.Tillie@Student.tUL.EDU
> >To: mono-vb@lists.ximian.com
> >Subject: [mono-vb] Building MonoBasic compiler
> >Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:09:40 +0200
> >
> >Hey all,
> >
> >
> >
> >What's the procedure to build the monobasic compiler? Specifically, =
how
> can
> >I turn mb-parser.jay to a cs file on Windows?
> >
> >I though that jay was ported to C#, but in mcs/jay there are a lot =
of c
> >files?
> >
> >
> >
> >Greetz,
> >
> >-- Rob.
> >
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