Re: [Tack-devel] Questions about LLgen

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

Yup, that's broken --- sorry, I forgot to update the manual build
instructions when most of the pm stuff got ripped out. I've fixed it and
added a simple Makefile. Try again, please?

On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 08:32, Wild Pi via Tack-devel <
tac...@li...> wrote:

> Hi, there,
>
> I'm new to LLgen and compiler in general. I just downloaded ACK, but I'm
> only interested in LLgen at this point. I'm trying to build and use it. I'm
> using GCC 7.5.0 on Ubuntu 18.0.4.
>
> When I run *./pm* from *LLgen/* directory, it failed with some errors. I
> played with the ./pm script, and produced the *.pm-exec-x86_64* binary.
> But it exited with this error:
>
> ./pm
> pm: cannot read pmfile: No such file or directory
>
> My first question: how can I build LLgen on 64-bit Ubuntu?
>
> My second question is about LLgen. I'm thinking to build a parser for a
> C++/Java like language. I notice *clang* is a hand written recursive
> descent parser. So I guess LLgen can be
> used to build a parser for a similar language. But before I spent tons of
> time into the project, could someone with LLgen experience tell me if LLgen
> can be used to implement, say,
> a full featured C++ or Java parser?
>
> Thank you,
>
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