Flex
Flex
https://github.com/westes/flex/
Fast lexical analyser generator.
Flex (The Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a tool for generating programs that recognize lexical patterns in text. There are many applications for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive start conditions.
Flex was never part of the GNU Project , although the GNU Project helped distribute it and wrote its manual.
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| W. L. Estes | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-flex/ | |
| Download | https://github.com/westes/flex/releases/ | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-help | |
| Debian (Ref) (R) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flex-old | |
| VCS Repository Webview | https://github.com/westes/flex/ | |
| General | https://translationproject.org/domain/flex.html | |
| Download | https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/flex/ | |
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flex | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/ | |
| General | https://sourceforge.net/projects/flex/ | |
| Mailing List | https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-announce |
Software prerequisites
| Kind | Description |
|---|---|
| Required to build | gcc |
| Required to build | bash |
| Required to use | indent for indenting the flex source the way we want it done |
| Required to build | m4 |
| Required to use | gettext for i18n support |
| Required to use | tar, gzip, etc. for packaging of the source distribution |
| Required to use | automake for Makefile generation |
| Required to use | texinfo to build and test the flex manual |
| Required to use | help2man to generate the flex man page |
| Required to use | bison to generate parse.c from parse.y |
| Required to use | autoconf for handling the build system |
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