From:	jcoffin AT taeus DOT com (Jerry Coffin)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Flex, Bison and VC++
Date:	Sun, 22 Mar 1998 10:20:43 -0700
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In article <351418b8 DOT 583009 AT news DOT mundivia DOT es>, 
lord_william AT poboxes DOT com says...
> I'm doing an interpreter with vc++. I need an easy way to access
> databases using DAO and multithreading features.
> I have made the grammar using flex and bison and I don't have problems
> compiling the source with the djgpp, but using vc++ (5.0) I have a lot
> of problems with redefinitions, macros and so on.

Are you talking about problems compiling the programs themselves, or 
the lexer/parser they generate?

I haven't personally used bison on Win32, but I've had absolutely NO 
problem using flex and byacc.

> Have anybody used this tools with visual c++ without too much
> problems? Is there any utility or visual c++ compatible tool for
> making lexical and syntactic analysis?

flex and byacc work quite well for me -- If memory serves, I did have 
to do a bit of editing on the flex source code to get it to compile, 
though I don't remember what, since that was probably 3 years ago or 
so.  If you want, I can email you the modified source code.

I don't recall making _any_ changes to byacc to get it to work; IIRC, 
there was already a directory containing what was needed under Win32.

-- 
    Later,
    Jerry.

The Universe is a figment of its own imagination.

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