ANTLR For Linux

ANTLR (also known as Another Tool for Language Recognition) is a free, open source and very powerful command-line software implemented in Java and designed from the offset to act as a parser generator for manipulating binary and structured text files.

The application was previously known as PCCT and it can read, execute, process or translate binary files or structured text. In other words, it’s a framework for constructing compilers, translators and recognizers from grammatical descriptions that contain C++, Java, Python or C# actions.

ANTLR is mostly used for building tools, frameworks and languages. It includes support for tree walking, tree construction and translation. Various command-line options are implemented in the program, allowing users to interact with the program through a terminal emulator.

To use the program, simply download it using the dedicated download section above, save the JAR file on your Home directory, open a terminal emulator application and run the ‘java -jar antlr-4.4-complete.jar’ command to view its command-line options.

These will allow you to specify the output directory where the program generates all output, to specify the location of tokens and grammars files, to generate rule augmented transition network diagrams, to specify the encoding used for a grammar file, as well as to generate file dependencies.

You will be able to specify the output style for messages in VS2005, GNU and ANTLR, to display exception details for warnings and errors, to disable or enable generation of parse tree listener and parse tree visitor, to specify the namespace and package for the generated code, to treat warning as errors, and to override or set a grammar-level option.

The software is supported on all GNU/Linux distributions, on the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems, as well as on any other OS where the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) technology is available. It runs on 64-bit and 32-bit computers.