Loading...Today I tried to create an ANTLR 4 grammar and compile it to C#. Of course, I used Sam Harwell’s C# target for ANTLR 4. I followed all instructions, added my grammar file, compiled it and got the following error:
ANTLR cannot generate ‘org.antlr.v4.codegen.CSharp_v4_5_1Target’ code as of version 4.1-SNAPSHOT
So what’s the problem? I’m not sure about the technical details, but apparently, the C# target is does not support .NET framework 4.5.1, yet(?). So when I set my project’s target framework to .NET Framework 4.5, the grammar was compiled successfully.
For the sake of completion, here are the error details:
Unknown build error: Executing command: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin\java.exe” -cp C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\..\tools\antlr4-csharp-4.1-SNAPSHOT-complete.jar org.antlr.v4.CSharpTool -o obj\Debug\ -listener -visitor -Dlanguage=CSharp_v4_5_1 -package mylanguage C:\…\mylanguage\mylanguage.g4
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC0031: ANTLR cannot generate ‘org.antlr.v4.codegen.CSharp_v4_5_1Target’ code as of version 4.1-SNAPSHOT
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NullPointerException
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.codegen.CodeGenerator.getTemplates(CodeGenerator.java:96)
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.automata.LexerATNFactory.(LexerATNFactory.java:69)
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.Tool.processNonCombinedGrammar(Tool.java:405)
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.Tool.process(Tool.java:376)
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.Tool.processGrammarsOnCommandLine(Tool.java:343)
C:\…\packages\Antlr4.4.1.0-alpha003\build\Antlr4.targets(132,5): error AC1000: Unknown build error: at org.antlr.v4.CSharpTool.main(CSharpTool.java:59)
Edit
Steve Cooper remarked the following:
Looks like the source has been updated to support 4.5.1 a week ago (https://github.com/tunnelvisionlabs/antlr4cs/commit/d206a6e00192eb471a60265faf962b9bc93b05a2) but the new source doesn’t seem to have been deployed to NuGet yet.
Until then, you can work on 4.5.1 by opening $(SolutionDir)\packages\Antlr4.4.2.2-alpha001\build\antlr4.targets and changing line 139 to
TargetFrameworkVersion=”v4.5″
I guess this file might need putting in source control, so that other users don’t get the original version on Package Restore.
Did you find an answer? I’m hitting a similar error…
Hi Ron, as the text says, I set the project’s target framework to .NET Framework 4.5 and the error went away. When you say “similar”, what is the difference in your scenario?
Looks like the source has been updated to support 4.5.1 a week ago (https://github.com/tunnelvisionlabs/antlr4cs/commit/d206a6e00192eb471a60265faf962b9bc93b05a2) but the new source doesn’t seem to have been deployed to NuGet yet.
Until then, you can work on 4.5.1 by opening $(SolutionDir)packagesAntlr4.4.2.2-alpha001buildantlr4.targets and changing line 139 to
TargetFrameworkVersion=”v4.5″
I guess this file might need putting in source control, so that other users don’t get the original version on Package Restore.
Thank you, this is a very helpful remark. I’ll put it into the post itself.
No problem. 🙂