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bison2.7

WinFlexBison - Flex and Bison for Microsoft Windows

Main winflexbison repository for http://sourceforge.net/projects/winflexbison/

Downloads

Go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/winflexbison/files/

HowTo

http://sourceforge.net/p/winflexbison/wiki/Visual%20Studio%20custom%20build%20rules/

History

see bin/Release/README.txt

Example flex/bison files

Go to https://github.com/meyerd/flex-bison-example

Release notes

NOTE: 2.4.x versions include bison version 2.7 2.5.x versions include bison version 3.0.x

======= versions 2.4.12/2.5.15

upgrade win_bison to version 3.0.5

======= versions 2.4.12/2.5.14

revert to Visual Studio 2015 due to false positive virus alarms for win_flex.exe

======= versions 2.4.11/2.5.13

fixed VS 2017 compilation errors in location.cc

======= versions 2.4.11/2.5.12

migrate to Visual Studio 2017

======= versions 2.4.10/2.5.11

upgrade win_flex to version 2.6.4 fixed compilation warnings

======= versions 2.4.9/2.5.10

data folder was up to dated for bison 3.0.4

======= versions 2.4.9/2.5.9

recovered --header-file win_flex option

======= versions 2.4.8/2.5.8

fixed outdated FlexLexer.h file

======= versions 2.4.7/2.5.7

upgrade win_flex to version 2.6.3 fixed compilation warnings

======= versions 2.4.6/2.5.6

upgrade win_bison to version 3.0.4 win_bison v2.7 is unchanged add separate custom build rules for win_bison "custom_build_rules\win_bison_only" and win_flex "custom_build_rules\win_flex_only"

======= versions 2.4.5/2.5.5

fix missing Additional Options in custom build rules fix incorrect "----header-file" option in flex custom build rules add some extra flex options to Visual Studio property pages:

1. Prefix (--prefix="...")
2. C++ Class Name (--yyclass="...")

======= versions 2.4.4/2.5.4

fix silent errors in custom build rules add some flex/bison options to Visual Studio property pages: Bison:

1. Output File Name (--output="...")
2. Defines File Name (--defines="...")
3. Debug (--debug)
4. Verbose (--verbose)
5. No lines (--no-lines)
6. File Prefix (--file-prefix="...")
7. Graph File (--graph="...")
8. Warnings (--warnings="...")
9. Report (--report="...")
10. Report File Name (--report-file="...")

Flex:

1. Output File Name (--outfile="...")
2. Header File Name (--header-file="...")
3. Windows compatibility mode (--wincompat)
4. Case-insensitive mode (--case-insensitive)
5. Lex-compatibility mode (--lex-compat)
6. Start Condition Stacks (--stack)
7. Bison Bridge Mode (--bison-bridge)
8. No #line Directives (--noline)
9. Generate Reentrant Scanner (--reentrant)
10. Generate C++ Scanner (--c++)
11. Debug Mode (--debug)

======= versions 2.4.3/2.5.3

fix incorrect #line directives in win_flex.exe see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542482

======= versions 2.4.2/2.5.2

backport parallel invocations of win_bison version 2.7 win_bison of version 3.0 is unchanged

versions 2.4.1/2.5.1

remove XSI extention syntax for fprintf function (not implemented in windows) this fixes Graphviz files generation for bison

NOTE: 2.4.x versions will include bison version 2.7 2.5.x versions will include bison version 3.0

version 2.5

upgrade win_bison to version 3.0 and make temporary win_bison's files process unique (so parallel invocations of win_bison are possible)

NOTE: There are several deprecated features were removed in bison 3.0 so this version can break your projects. Please see http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7663 For the reason of compatibility I don't change win_flex_bison-latest.zip to refer to win_flex_bison-2.5.zip file. It still refer to win_flex_bison-2.4.zip

version 2.4

fix problem with "m4_syscmd is not implemented" message. Now win_bison should output correct diagnostic and error messages.

version 2.3

hide attribute construction for non GCC compilers

version 2.2

added --wincompat option to win_flex (this option changes <unistd.h> unix include with <io.h> windows analog also isatty/fileno functions changed to _isatty/_fileno) fixed two "'<' : signed/unsigned mismatch" warnings in win_flex generated file

version 2.1

fixed crash when execute win_bison.exe under WindowsXP (argv[0] don't have full application path) added win_flex_bison-latest.zip package to freeze download link

version 2.0

upgrade win_bison to version 2.7 and win_flex to version 2.5.37

version 1.2

fixed win_flex.exe #line directives (some #line directives in output file were with unescaped backslashes)

version 1.1

fixed win_flex.exe parallel invocations (now all temporary files are process specific) added FLEX_TMP_DIR environment variable support to redirect temporary files folder added '.exe' to program name in win_flex.exe --version output (CMake support) fixed win_bison.exe to use /data subfolder related to executable path rather than current working directory