The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference, 2nd Edition

Installing ANTLR

ANTLR is written in Java, so you need to have Java installed before you begin.^[7] This is true even if you’re going to use ANTLR to generate parsers in another language such as C# or C++. (I expect to have other targets in the near future.) ANTLR requires Java version 1.6 or newer.

Why This Book Uses the Command-Line Shell

Throughout this book, we’ll be using the command line (shell) to run ANTLR and build our applications. Since programmers use a variety of development environments and operating systems, the operating system shell is the only “interface” we have in common. Using the shell also makes each step in the language application development and build process explicit. I’ll be using the Mac OS X shell throughout ...