On Saturday 15 December 2007 14:58:01 Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > While at a meeting today I had a period of time where I couldn't > easily sync with the Parrot repository to work on it, so I hacked > together a small script to automatically populate a new languages/ > subdirectory with a "standard" compiler tools setup. The script > is attached. > > With this script, one can do: > > $ perl tools/dev/mk_language_shell.pl Xyz > > The script will automatically create a languages/xyz/ > directory with the following files (all customized to the > language being created): > > xyz.pir > config/makefiles/root.in > src/parser/grammar.pg > src/parser/actions.pm > src/builtins/say.pir > t/harness > t/00-sanity.t > > The script also runs the reconfigure step on the directory > to produce a Makefile from config/makefiles/root.in . So, > after running the above to create a compiler shell for 'Xyz', > one can immediately do: > > $ cd languages/xyz > $ make test > ../../parrot > /home/pmichaud/parrot/trunk/runtime/parrot/library/PGE/Perl6Grammar.pbc \ > --output=src/gen_grammar.pir \ > src/parser/grammar.pg > ../../parrot /home/pmichaud/parrot/trunk/compilers/nqp/nqp.pbc > --output=src/gen_actions.pir \ --target=pir src/parser/actions.pm > /usr/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Command -e cat src/builtins/say.pir > >src/gen_builtins.pir ../../parrot -o xyz.pbc xyz.pir > /usr/bin/perl t/harness > t/00-sanity......ok > All tests successful. > Files=1, Tests=2, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.01 usr 0.01 sys + 0.06 cusr > 0.01 csys = 0.09 CPU) Result: PASS > $ > > After that the language implementor can start customizing the grammar, > actions, etc. for whatever language is being built. > > Comments welcomed. Let me know if/when we want this script added > to tools/dev/ .
Max Mohun wrote something similar after YAPC::NA this year, but I held off on it until NQP was complete. Here's the most recent tarball he produced. I think it's a bit further along, but it's definitely along the same lines. -- c
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