Anyone Successful using Static Windows antlr4-cpp-runtime-4.8?

[rossy62]

Hi All,
Anyone successful with linking to a static Windows Antlr4 runtime?
I've been tinkering with ANTLR4 for a few years, have runtime 4.8 antlr4-cpp-runtime-4.8-source and was able to get CMAKE to build fine. And poke around to get some CSV parsers and XML parsers written, and generate and use the CPP output in Visual Studio 2013/and 2019 this is with a DLL version of the ANTLR4 runtime.

My experience is that I can successfully build a msbuild tree with CMAKE that Visual Studio can operate on the Solutions file (I have not yet examined built in CMAKE in visual studio). As long as I use/build a dynamic version (DLL) of the antlr4 cpp runtime.

I can build the static antlr4 runtime, but I can't link my parser to it.

Just wondering if anyone has been successful with that. I could use some breadcrumbs.

I have to use MFC, and I recall some issues with ATL vs MFC declarations but I'd have to get back to this to post the actual linker errors I see. If it is MFC/ATL then it's some type of header declaration issue.

I'm also getting a /MDd /MTd type warning at the moment, that could be new cockpit error.
I should be able to create a DLL with *.cpp modules and a *.lib, but perhaps not. Perhaps I can only
create a *.lib of my parser with antlr4-runtime-static.lib. Generally all this stuff is 1000% more difficult in Windoze than Linux. DLL's in windows and avoiding *.def files is a general career builder as no one wants to mess with the complexity.

Thanks for the nifty parser and all the work thats going on. I'll try to elaborate here when/if I have more time.

[rossy62]

I Pulled the latest repository 11/15/2021, and did a build of the antlr4-static and got a library that links fine. It appears there were some fixes since I pulled the repo in March of 2020. Nice work everyone!
I'm now able to get my parser DLL to work with my application. The performance isn't quite what I had hoped, so I likey have some issues in my definition that could be tweeked. But it works.
It's always a trade off, write my own reader, or use ANTLR4.