Win flex-bison is a windows port the Flex (the fast lexical analyser) and Bison (GNU parser generator). win_flex based on Flex version 2.6.3 source code and win_bison based on Bison version 2.7 and they depend on system libraries only.

Git repository: https://github.com/lexxmark/winflexbison

UPDATE1: Bison version 3.x.x available in Files section in win_flex_bison3-latest.zip package.

UPDATE2: Now "winflexbison" available as package in Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/packages/winflexbison and https://chocolatey.org/packages/winflexbison3)

UPDATE3: You can use VS custom build rules to simplify working with winflexbison in Visual Studio 2010 and upper (https://sourceforge.net/p/winflexbison/wiki/Visual%20Studio%20custom%20build%20rules/).

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  • BEST flex-bison port ever. Special thanks for Chocolatey package.
  • WinFlexBison is very useful for anyone that is locked within MS Windows and quite up-to-date with the current versions of GNU Bison and Flex.
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • it's hard to find f*** working
    1 user found this review helpful.
  • Nice work! Sure beats round tripping to the *nix box and back again.
  • easy, no need to install, has everything you need to plug old bison and flex into a C++ project if you have to work on Windows. Great!
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Operating Systems

Windows

Intended Audience

Information Technology, Science/Research

Programming Language

C++, C

Related Categories

C++ Libraries, C++ Parser Generators, C Libraries, C Parser Generators

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2011-10-23