Any usable parsers for D2 around?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 02:47:28 +0400, Andrej Mitrovic <none at none.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I've been looking for a D2 parser.. there seems to be a few D1 lexers,  
> parsers, and even some minimal semantic analysis tools but I can't find  
> much of anything for D2. Perhaps Goldie will be D2 compatible some day  
> soon. :)
>
> There's a "CodeAnalyzer" lexer/parser with some minimal semantics, but  
> it's D1 only and kind of dead for some years. The Poseidon author added  
> some D2 support for it in his editor, so I have kept an eye on that. But  
> interfacing with D1 code from D2 is kind of complicated, and I need to  
> use it from D2. (I guess I could get away with writing a DLL with a  
> simple interface for D2 or something..).
>
> I had a visit on the prowiki site and most of the parser projects there  
> are either D1-only or dead. So is there anything usable for D2?  
> Specifically I need these tools for use with an editor/IDE, which is  
> something I'm working on for fun atm. But working on a parser is  
> probably a ton of work, + the whole thing screams NIH to me. Luckily  
> enough I don't have to reinvent a GUI and an editing control, there's  
> DFL and Scintilla which are pretty awesome for my needs.
>
> Maybe I should take a look at how Descent/DDT and VisualD do their  
> parsing.. :)

You can try using ddmd (dsource.org/projects/ddmd).