Open Source C++ Code Generators

RapidJSON is a JSON parser and generator for C++. It was inspired by RapidXml. RapidJSON is small but complete. It supports both SAX and DOM style API. The SAX parser is only a half thousand lines of code. RapidJSON is fast. Its performance can be comparable to strlen(). It also optionally supports SSE2/SSE4.2 for acceleration. RapidJSON is self-contained and header-only. It does not depend on external libraries such as BOOST. It even does not depend on STL. RapidJSON is memory-friendly. Each JSON value occupies exactly 16 bytes for most 32/64-bit machines (excluding text string). By default it uses a fast memory allocator, and the parser allocates memory compactly during parsing. RapidJSON is Unicode-friendly. It supports UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 (LE & BE), and their detection, validation and transcoding internally. For example, you can read a UTF-8 file and let RapidJSON transcode the JSON strings into UTF-16 in the DOM. It also supports surrogates and "\u0000" (null character).

Lapg is the combined lexical analyzer and parser generator, which converts a description for a context-free LALR grammar into source file to parse the grammar. Generates code for Java, Javascript, C, C++ and C#.

A runtime parser generator library, generates parsers for context-free grammars. Parsing scripting languages and communication protocol messages are typical use cases. The library is written in straight C++ and requires STL. Clean, correct, efficient.

Styx is a scanner and parser generator designed to address some shortcomings of the traditional lex/yacc combination. It has unique features like automatic derivation of depth grammar, production of the derivation tree including it's C interface which provides access to the abstract syntax tree, preservation of full source information and pretty printing to facilitate source-source translation, persistence to aid rapid interpreter writing. For application in contemporary computing environments, it supports unicode, reentrancy and offers thread-safeness.

Spirit is an object oriented recursive descent parser generator framework implemented using template meta-programming techniques.

CppCC is an object-oriented scanner and LL(k) parser generator. It aims to replace LEX&YACC for those who write C++ applications that involve parsing.

Generate a parser at runtime from a collection of C++ objects. Concisely state a parser specification in ordinary C++ code. Learn from a parser generator with an object-oriented design.

CSP Canonical LR(1) Parser Generator. Includes lexer and parser generator. Supports all OS. Produces code as standard ANSI C++ w/ minimal STL and usable in commercial or non-commercial purposes.

C++ LALR parser generator

A universal parsing tool and source code generator for generative programming. It extracts useful information by parsing (BNF parser generator) and generates source code by several techniques, by interpreting a scripting language for flexibility.

The goal of this project is to create a simple and easy to use parser generator that will accept a textual grammar file as an input and output modularized classes representing a limited parser interface. Long term goals include a robust grammar file syntax, output suitable for multiple programming languages, and tools for better integrating compiler functionality, parse tree manipulation, and FSM based scanner generation.

Soul is a recursive descent parser generator tool for Windows and Linux that comes with a parsing library.

Scannerless recursive descent C++ parser generator

Wisent is an LALR(1) parser generator with pluggable front- and backends. It generates object-oriented code with clean namespace separation. A yacc-like frontend is currently accompanied by a C++ and a Java backend. The tool itself is implemented in C++.

XMLpg - XML parser generator. Generates an XML parser in C++ from a DTD. The generated code will provide validation as well as conversion of the input XML.

This project is a parser generator, like the lex and yacc, but is based on the JavaCC grammar. It was writing in c++, run on linux and dos, and don't use another library. The grammar parser is specified through a simple file, and the parser generated

The Chilon Library is a C++0x utility library. The most advanced parts are a command-line argument parser and a parser generator library based on parsing expression grammars with built in AST generation abilities.

Implementation of a combined scanner and parser generator for object oriented C++ or Java code generation

C++ parser generator based on project lemon

QPG is a lexer and parser generator tailored for modern C++. The syntax of its grammer is designed to be more flexible and easily read than those of traditional tools like flex and bison. It's build on Qt4 but can produce output independent of it.

qtBisonC++ is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a QT C++ program to parse that grammar. qtBisonC++ reads the given input files for a description of a scanner to generate. The description is in the form of grammar in Backus-Naur Form (BNF), called rules. qtBisonC++ generates as output a C++ source and include file, `lexyy.cpp` and `lexyy.h`, which defines a class `lexyy'. This file is compiled with your code to produce an executable. When the executable is run, it analyses its input to verify that its correspond to the grammar.

The SoulNG project contains two tools: a lexical analyzer generator slg and a parser generator spg. The generators and the produced lexical analyzers and parsers use four C++ libraries that are also included in the project. The slg tool takes a .lexer file that contains the description of a lexical analyzer as input and produces C++ source code for a lexical analyzer as output. The produced lexical analyzer is a finite state machine that recognizes patterns described as regular expressions and return corresponding token identifiers to the parser. The spg tool takes .parser files that contain descriptions of parsers as input and produces C++ source code for parser classes as output. The parser generator produces a recursive descent top-down backtracking parser that use the lexical analyzer generated by slg to tokenize the input.