Re: bison - MSYS - Windows/DOS

[Luca]

Il 13/04/2011 14.11, Gus Gassmann ha scritto:
> I am using bison 2.3 in MSYS. The setup works for me, but I have recently
> become a bit more ambitious. What I would like to do is embed the bison command
> into a Visual Studio build. The bison executable under MSYS is a Windows
> executable, so this ought to work (it does work with flex), but I get an error
> about not finding m4sugar.m4. Is there a command line option I could use to
> override the default location?
>
> Just to be perfectly clear:
>
> bison -ldv -p osil -o OSParseosil.tab.cpp OSParseosil.y
>
> works inside an MSYS box, but inside a DOS box gives me the error
>
> bison: cannot open file `/usr/share/bison/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4': No such file or
> directory
>
> Is there a way that I can get this command to run in a DOS box?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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You can run bison from a batch file,
then add the batch file to a VS post build event ,
but you have to add bison to your path, e.g:


path=%path%;c:\PATH_TO_BISON_EXE\bison.exe

bison -ldv -p osil -o OSParseosil.tab.cpp OSParseosil.y




Maybe this link to "Custom Build Rules for Visual C++ 2005 IDE" could be useful:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730877%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

you can download build rules from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyId=36873774-CA5B-4B49-ACB7-94B8CD4EF502&displaylang=en


Bye,
Luca