Any usable parsers for D2 around?

[Lutger]

Andrej Mitrovic 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 working with ddmd on dsource. It is a port from the dmd 
frontend, currently at 2.039.