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APG - An ABNF Parser Generator

Version 5.1 Description
(Released March 1, 2009)

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APG version 5.1 updates versions 5.0 and 5.0.1 in three ways.

  1. Most significantly, it updates the Linux build procedure to the autotools format.
  2. It includes project files for the Open Source IDE, Code::Blocks (www.codeblocks.org). Project files for Microsoft's Visual C++ are no longer supported.
  3. It enhances the ABNF Grammar for the parser generator to accept the single-character line endings LF (\n or 0x0a) or CR (\r or 0x0d) in addition to the RFC 4234 specification CRLF (\r\n or 0x0d0a).

You can download version 5.1 here.

Acknowledgment: Many thanks to Sebastian Pipping for his time and effort creating the autotools build and for suggesting Code::Blocks as an Open Source IDE to work uniformly across Linux and Windows. For more of his work visit (http://www.hartwork.org/)

APG 5.0, 5.0.1 and 5.1 are released under the GNU General Public License, 1991 (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html). The APG 5.1 files are distributed in four different compression formats:

  • apg-5.1.tar.gz
  • apg-5.1.zip
  • apg-5.1.tar.bz2
  • apg-5.1.tar.lzma.

After decompressing and changing to the apg-5.1 directory there are three options for building APG 5.1.

  1. On a Linux system execute:
    ./configure --prefix=/mylib (default is /usr/local)
    make
    make install

    The installation locations will be:
    /mydir/bin/apg
    /mydir/lib/libapg.a
    /mydir/lib/libapgutilities.a
    /mydir/include/Apg.h
    /mydir/include/ApgUtilities.h

    /mylib/bin/apg is the parser generator. The libraries and header files are required to build the generated parsers.

  2. If Code::Blocks is installed, on either a Linux or Windows system run Code::Blocks and open the file ./apg.workspace. From the "Build" menu select "Build workspace".
  3. Compile and link all of the source files using your favorite IDE or build environment.

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