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Some mistakes in the book 'Compiler Construction - A Practical Approach' were spotted by readers. These have been corrected in release 1.1.

Alex van Oostenrijk

We just built the Inger compiler (version 0.3) on Windows using DJGPP. The resulting exe runs on Windows, but you'll need GNU as and ld (both in DJGPP) to build programs.

Alex van Oostenrijk

The 0.3 release of Inger is out! The Inger compiler works and we can build programs with it. Since Inger allows C interoperability, we are able to create real-world programs with it, such as simple games. Work is underway to write some wrapper header files (.ih files) that allow Inger programs to call a variety of Windows libraries (think DirectX).

The 0.3 release is sizeable (3 Mb), but that is mainly because it includes the LaTeX sources with PNG images for the compiler book, and Inger source examples.... read more

The first version of our book on Compiler Construction is finished. It is a comprehensive handbook on writing a compiler from scratch, in C. Topics include lexical anlysis, LL(1) grammars, recursive descent parsing, building abstract syntax trees, type checking, assorted semantic checks, and code generation.

The first iteration of the inger compiler is finished. The parser is fully finished, and so is the abstract syntax tree module. The compiler also generates a symbol table. Work is in progress on semantic analysis (type checking) and code generation.