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Engine Comparison

This list should be in alphabetical order by Language first, then Engine.

Note that any engine that says "(plus DLL)" in the Language column should be usable from any language that can access DLLs.

Table Key

Virtual Terminals

What, if any, Virtual Terminals are supported by the engine?

Error Checking

The type of checking, if any, the engine does on things such as ensuring that symbol names exist in the grammar being used.

Generates Skeleton Code

Is there a way to automatically generate source code to parse a given grammar with the particular engine?

Grammars Embeddable

Does the engine provide a way to embed a grammar directly into your program? If so, how?

Grammars At Runtime

Does the engine provide a way to load a grammar at runtime (ie, not embedded)? This can be useful when writing a program designed to support user-defined grammars.

Language Engine License Platform Documentation Virtual Terminals Error Checking Generates Skeleton Code Grammars Embeddable Grammars At Runtime Notes
Assembly (x86) (plus DLL) Madra v1.2 ? Windows ? ? ? ? ? ? A DLL version is available which allows this engine to be used with any language that can call DLLs.
C Holmes 1/2005 ? Windows, Linux (untested: All others) ? ? ? ? ? ?
C (MSVC 6) P.H. ? Windows (untested: All others) ? ? ? ? ? ? A modification of the Holmes engine.
C++ Astudillo v1.0.4 LGPL Linux, FreeBSD, HPUX ? ? ? ? ? ?
C++ Bodde wxWidgets v1.0 ? Windows, Linux (untested: OSX, Solaris) ? ? ? ? ? ?
C++ LUDO v3.4.0.0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
D (D2) Goldie v0.7 zlib/libpng Windows, Linux (untested: OSX, FreeBSD) Online, Download None Compile-Time No Yes, generates code to be compiled in. Yes
D (D1/Tango, D1/Phobos) Piepkorn v1.0 ? ? None ? ? Yes Yes, generates code to be compiled in. ? Seems to have been abandoned. May or may not still work with current versions of the D compiler or Tango.
Language Engine License Platform Documentation Virtual Terminals Error Checking Generates Skeleton Code Grammars Embeddable Grammars At Runtime Notes
Delphi Khachab ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? A modification of the van der Geer engine.
Delphi (Delphi 5 and Delphi 3) Rai v1.0 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Delphi van der Geer v0.2 Alpha ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Java Hawkins v1.0.3 ? All JVM-compatible OSes Online, Download Tutorial ? ? ? ? ?
Java Schwibbe v1.2 ? All JVM-compatible OSes ? ? ? ? ? ? A modification of the Hawkins engine to be compatible with Eclipse.
Language Engine License Platform Documentation Virtual Terminals Error Checking Generates Skeleton Code Grammars Embeddable Grammars At Runtime Notes
.NET Languages BSN LGPL .NET Online Tutorial Any (by overriding the NextToken method on the tokenizer) Run-Time No, but has an alternative way of binding code to grammars Yes, can load CGT files embedded as a resource. Yes, from any stream Handles comments differently than the GOLD Parser Builder reference implementation.
.NET Languages Calitha v1.10 ? .NET Online, Download ? ? yes, templates distributed w/builder ? ?
.NET Languages Klimstra v1.1 Beta ? .NET Online ? ? ? ? ?
.NET Languages Morozov v2.1 ? .NET Online, Download ? ? yes, templates distributed w/builder ? ?
.NET Languages Wilbanks ? .NET ? ? ? ? ? ?
Pascal (Object Pascal) van den Brink v1.1 ? ? ? SynError (for error productions) ? ? Yes ?
Python PyGold v0.9.1 zlib/libpng All Python-compatible OSes ? ? ? ? ? ?
VB6 (plus DLL) Cook v3.0.0 ? Windows Online, Download ? ? ? ? ? This is the engine used by the test window of GOLD Parser Builder. A Visual C++ project is available.
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