Open Source C Parser Generators

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/).

Ox is an attribute grammar compiling system that augments Lex and Yacc specifications with definitions of synthesized and inherited attributes written in a combination of Ox and C/C++ syntax. From these augmented specifications, Ox generates ordinary Lex and Yacc specifications that build and decorate attributed parse trees. The user can specify parse-tree traversals for easy ordering of side effects such as code generation. Ox handles the tedious and error-prone details of writing code for parse-tree management, so its use eases problems of security and maintainability associated with that aspect of translator development.

JSON parser is a highly efficient JSON data decoder written in C, that parses JSON data into a form that is very easy to use from within C code. You only need to include the json-parser.h file in your source code. If your project does not already incorporate D-List, you will also need to include dlist.h The JSON parser package also includes a JSON validator that does not parse or create resources, but allows the caller to validate JSON data from unknown sources, prior to any parsing attempts. The JSON data is returned to the caller as a set of hierarchical D-List list objects, that make the data very easy to manage, sort, search or use, and easy to remove when done. Package includes a JSON textural generator which will create JSON grammar data blocks from hierarchical D-List representations of JSON data. The package also includes a variety of support functions to allow C code to easily find, add, and modify JSON values and members in D-List hierarchical structures.

Ayauhteotl is a parser generator to parse XML files, using an XML-like syntax. The parser generator takes an XML file which describe the structure of the XML files to parse and which associates a semantic (for now in \\\\\\\"C\\\\\\\") t

This project has moved to https://github.com/jplevyak/dparser The master on github is the stable. Please pull that for the very latest code. DParser is a scannerless GLR parser generator based on the Tomita algorithm. It is self-hosted and very easy to use. Grammars are written in a natural style of EBNF and regular expressions and support both speculative and final actions.

The Embedded XML Parser Generator is creating some C source code that parses XML files (or streams) from a user specified document structure. Generated code can support advanced features (inter-dependencies, native data types etc...).

Hyacc is an efficient and practical Yacc/Bison-compatible full LR(1)/LALR(1)/LR(0) and partial LR(k) parser generator in ANSI C based on Knuth and Pager's LR(1) algorithms. Generated parser can be used in open-source or commercial software.

The LALR parser generator (LPG) is a tool for developing scanners and parsers written in Java, C++ or C. Input is specified by BNF rules. LPG supports backtracking (to resolve ambiguity), automatic AST generation and grammar inheritance.

A parser generator based on parsing expression grammar rules. It generates code and accepts actions in LLVM Assembly rather than C like its predecessor, PEG, did.

A full LR(1) parser generator system with many advanced features.

Parse software messages and transform them into actions. LazyBat has a command line utility which can transform input data, and also a parser generator for C/C++. LazyBat doesn't support recursive parsing, but rather focuses on common parsing jobs.

Lemonade 0.01 An Lalr Parser Generator for "D" (www.digitalmars.com) Based on Lemon 1.0 Ref: http://www.hwaci.com/sw/lemon/

PackCC is a packrat parser generator for C, which can handle PEGs (Parsing Expression Grammars) very efficiently, and can support direct and indirect left-recursive grammar rules.

A collection of tools for the SETL Programming Language, including a LALR parser generator and lexical scanner generator.

Styx is a scanner and parser generator designed to address some shortcomings of the traditional lex/yacc combination. It has unique features like automatic derivation of depth grammar, production of the derivation tree including it's C interface which provides access to the abstract syntax tree, preservation of full source information and pretty printing to facilitate source-source translation, persistence to aid rapid interpreter writing. For application in contemporary computing environments, it supports unicode, reentrancy and offers thread-safeness.

In a nutshell it takes as input the formal specification of any text protocol in ABNF and generates the parser in C language for that grammar using lex/yacc.

The purpose of the project was to serve as a testbed for compiler technology. Currently there is a PEG parser generator and a C99 preprocessor in C.

UML 2 Statemachine Code Generator is a developer framework for an easy implementation of statemachine based applications. Here, with this framework only one Domain-specific language (DSL) specification is necessary to create executable codes for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. With this framework you save a lot of time and effort during implementation; also you have an always valid - based on a well-defined C++ standard - generated code with high quality.

UniCC (UNIversal Compiler-Compiler) compiles an augmented grammar definition into a program source code that parses the described grammar. Because UniCC is intended to be target-language independent, it can be configured via template definition files to emit parsers in almost any programming language. UniCC comes with out of the box support for the programming languages C, C++, Python (both 2.x and 3.x) and JavaScript. Parsers can also be generated into JSON and XML.

Waxeye is a parser generator based on parsing expression grammars (PEGs). It supports C, Java, Javascript, Python, Ruby and Scheme.

jsBison is a parser generator which can read bison style grammar definitions and generates according parsers written solely in javascript. Therefore, using jsBison it is easily possible to perform "real" parsing on websites on the client side.

C++ parser generator based on project lemon

XML C Parser Generator (xmlcpg) is a xml processor coupled with a flex/bison C parser generator. A DTD can be processed to build a specialized parser for the grammar.