VBF is a set of tools/libraries for compilers. It has seperated libraries for scanners and parsers. One can easily use one component as well as use them all together.

1. Install Visual Studio 2012 with .Net Framework 4.5
2. Open Options dialog, go to "Package Manager" and then check "Allow NuGet to download missing packages during build"
3. Open Project VBF/src/Compilers/Compilers.sln
4. Build
5. Binaries will be placed in VBF/bin folder

• VBF.Compilers.Common

  Provides source file reader, compilation error manager, etc

• VBF.Compilers.Scanners

  Provides DFA based scanner builder using regular expressions. There're multiple types of scanners to choose: a standard Scanner, a PeekableScanner with the capability to peek n tokens, a ForkableScanner that can fork to multiple scanner heads.

• VBF.Compilers.Parsers

  Provides LR based, auto error recovery parser generator. To start, inherit ParserBase class and build your own parser. It is recommended for most parsers.

• VBF.Compilers.Parsers.Combinators

  Similar to Compilers.Parsers but it's an LL based parser combinator library. To start, inherit ParserFrame class and build your own parser. It is used to study LL grammars.

• MiniSharp: VBF\src\Samples\MiniSharp

  MiniSharp is a fully functional compiler of a very small subset of C# language. It contains parsers and scanners built with VBF and an MSIL code generator.

  It is a good sample for programming language and DSL authors.

• For additional sample, please refer to NotBasic project: https://github.com/Ninputer/notbasic

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