How To Use Flex on Windows
Solution 1
It's possible to set up a Visual Studio project that uses flex
as a custom build step in order to automatically invoke flex
and then compile the generated file. I taught a compilers course last summer and we have instructions on how to get flex
and a sample project file available on the archived course website. You should look under the announcement labeled "Visual Studio Starter Files for PP1."
Hope this helps!
Solution 2
Using Win flex-bison with visual studio is quite easier and straightforward. You can find it at Win Flex-Bison.
John Roberts
Updated on August 01, 2022Comments
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John Roberts almost 2 years
I apologize if this is a dumb question, but I have 0 experience with this tool and wanted to know if I'm going about using it properly. I've downloaded flex which, upon compiling my lex file, produces a C file which then needs to be compiled separately. Is this the best way to do it?