I'm trying to learn ANTLR 4, and I'm following the examples given in The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference. Sadly I'm stuck at the first example.
System:
Windows 10 (1703)
Java 8, update 151
ANTLR 4, v4.7
My %CLASSPATH%
is set as a system variable (.;"D:\Program Files\Java\libs\antlr-4.7-complete.jar";
).
I have antlr4.bat
and grun.bat
available in my %PATH%
, and I'm able to run antlr4
from the command line.
antlr4.bat
: java -cp %CLASSPATH% org.antlr.v4.Tool %*
grun.bat
: java -cp %CLASSPATH% org.antlr.v4.gui.TestRig %*
I'm using -cp %CLASSPATH%
explicitly because I've seen a few others having problems when not using the -cp
option.
My problem is this:
When I run grun
on the example grammar Hello
(grun Hello r -tokens
) I get this error message
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: HelloLexer (wrong name: main/resource/hello/HelloLexer)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.antlr.v4.gui.TestRig.process(TestRig.java:129)
at org.antlr.v4.gui.TestRig.main(TestRig.java:119)
Any ideas to what I'm doing wrong?
Many thanks in advance!
EDIT:
I thought I had found an answer. By cd
-ing into the folder where the compiled files were (instead of calling grun
from the root project folder) I managed to get through the example in question.
But when I tried to set up my own project, I came across the same issue, with the same error message as above.
This time, it seems like grun
is complaining after I've run antlr4
with the -package
option.
Does anyone know why this is?
Wow... The solution was, of course, an easy solution... My problem was that I had cd
'd to the root folder of my test project, and I just had to cd
to (and call grun
from) the directory where the compiled files are.
Edit:
It seems like I still have an issue with grun
. See edited question.
Edit2:
From what I can tell, grun
doesn't cooperate very well with antlr4
's -package
option.
So my solution was that I had to set up my project as a Gradle project, because apparently that works better.