Flex/Bison IDE?
bison, flex-lexer, ide
Solution
ANTLR has several IDEs available, including one I wrote. By user count, ANTLRWorks is probably the most used. Mine has fewer overall features, but I use it extensively because it integrates so cleanly with my Visual Studio work. ANTLR's grammar syntax is clean and very powerful, generates code for many languages, and its generated lexers/parsers are clean, debuggable code.
Edit to address concerns in the comments:
- Commercial documentation for ANTLR exists and is recommended by many, but is certainly not required. The nFringe IDE product (commercial/closed source) I worked on uses ANTLR extensively and was developed completely without the aid of the ANTLR reference book.
- ANTLRWorks 1.x development is slow, but not stopped. There are currently no open issues, and two significant issues have been fixed since the latest 1.5 release.
- ANTLRWorks 2 is a completely different product and was written from scratch. A separate issue tracker is available for this product.
Problem
I'm looking for a good development environment in which to work on flex or bison or both. Are there any IDE's that have these capabilities and/or are suitable for this? (If not the next most general question is are there lexer/parser generators with IDE's?) Thanks ~Alex