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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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2 January 2019




Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)Role
W. L. Estes Maintainer


Resources and communication

AudienceResource typeURI
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-flex/
Downloadhttps://github.com/westes/flex/releases/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-help
Debian (Ref) (R)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flex-old
VCS Repository Webviewhttps://github.com/westes/flex/
Generalhttps://translationproject.org/domain/flex.html
Downloadhttps://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/flex/
Debian (Ref)https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/flex
Mailing Listhttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
Generalhttps://sourceforge.net/projects/flex/
Mailing Listhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/flex-announce


Software prerequisites

KindDescription
Required to buildgcc
Required to buildbash
Required to useindent for indenting the flex source the way we want it done
Required to buildm4
Required to usegettext for i18n support
Required to usetar, gzip, etc. for packaging of the source distribution
Required to useautomake for Makefile generation
Required to usetexinfo to build and test the flex manual
Required to usehelp2man to generate the flex man page
Required to usebison to generate parse.c from parse.y
Required to useautoconf for handling the build system




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