changelog.md

Changelog

NOTE:

• 2.4.x versions include bison version 2.7
• 2.5.x versions include bison version 3.x

version 2.5.25

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.8.2
• upgrade m4 to version 1.4.19

version 2.5.24

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.7.4
• upgrade m4 to version 1.4.18
• upgrade gnulib
• removed VS2015 support
• fixed win_bison --update option (renaming opened file)

version 2.5.23

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.7.1

version 2.5.22

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.5.0

version 2.5.21

• avoid _m4eof lines in generated bison code while printing warnings

version 2.5.20

• recovered invoking win_bison from different folders

version 2.5.19

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.4.1

version 2.5.18

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.3.2

version 2.5.17

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.3.1

version 2.5.16

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.1
• write output flex/bison files in binary mode "wb" that means use '\n' EOL not '\r\n'
• documentation about how to use the custom build-rules is now included

versions 2.4.12/2.5.15

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.0.5

versions 2.4.12/2.5.14

• revert to Visual Studio 2015 due to false positive virus alarms for win_flex.exe

versions 2.4.11/2.5.13

• fixed VS 2017 compilation errors in location.cc

versions 2.4.11/2.5.12

• migrate to Visual Studio 2017

versions 2.4.10/2.5.11

• upgrade win_flex to version 2.6.4
• fixed compilation warnings

versions 2.4.9/2.5.10

• data folder was up to dated for bison 3.0.4

versions 2.4.9/2.5.9

• recovered --header-file win_flex option

versions 2.4.8/2.5.8

• fixed outdated FlexLexer.h file

versions 2.4.7/2.5.7

• upgrade win_flex to version 2.6.3
• fixed compilation warnings

versions 2.4.6/2.5.6

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.0.4
• win_bison v2.7 is unchanged
• add separate custom build rules
  • for win_bison custom_build_rules\win_bison_only
  • and win_flex custom_build_rules\win_flex_only

versions 2.4.5/2.5.5

• fix missing Additional Options in custom build rules
• fix incorrect "----header-file" option in flex custom build rules
• add some extra flex options to Visual Studio property pages:
  1. Prefix (--prefix="...")
  2. C++ Class Name (--yyclass="...")

###versions 2.4.4/2.5.4

• fix silent errors in custom build rules

• add some flex/bison options to Visual Studio property pages:

• Bison:

  1. Output File Name (--output="...")
  2. Defines File Name (--defines="...")
  3. Debug (--debug)
  4. Verbose (--verbose)
  5. No lines (--no-lines)
  6. File Prefix (--file-prefix="...")
  7. Graph File (--graph="...")
  8. Warnings (--warnings="...")
  9. Report (--report="...")
  10. Report File Name (--report-file="...")

• Flex:

  1. Output File Name (--outfile="...")
  2. Header File Name (--header-file="...")
  3. Windows compatibility mode (--wincompat)
  4. Case-insensitive mode (--case-insensitive)
  5. Lex-compatibility mode (--lex-compat)
  6. Start Condition Stacks (--stack)
  7. Bison Bridge Mode (--bison-bridge)
  8. No #line Directives (--noline)
  9. Generate Reentrant Scanner (--reentrant)
  10. Generate C++ Scanner (--c++)
  11. Debug Mode (--debug)

versions 2.4.3/2.5.3

• fix incorrect #line directives in win_flex.exe see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542482

versions 2.4.2/2.5.2

• backport parallel invocations of win_bison version 2.7
• win_bison of version 3.0 is unchanged

versions 2.4.1/2.5.1

• remove XSI extention syntax for fprintf function (not implemented in windows)
• this fixes Graphviz files generation for bison

NOTE:

• 2.4.x versions will include bison version 2.7
• 2.5.x versions will include bison version 3.0

version 2.5

• upgrade win_bison to version 3.0 and make temporary win_bison's files process unique (so parallel invocations of win_bison are possible)

NOTE: Several deprecated features were removed in bison 3.0 so this version can break your projects. Please see http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7663 For the reason of compatibility I don't change win_flex_bison-latest.zip to refer to win_flex_bison-2.5.zip file. It still refer to win_flex_bison-2.4.zip

version 2.4

• fix problem with "m4_syscmd is not implemented" message.
• Now win_bison should output correct diagnostic and error messages.

version 2.3

• hide attribute construction for non GCC compilers

version 2.2

• added --wincompat option to win_flex (this option changes <unistd.h> unix include with <io.h> windows analog also isatty/fileno functions changed to _isatty/_fileno) fixed two "'<' : signed/unsigned mismatch" warnings in win_flex generated file

version 2.1

• fixed crash when execute win_bison.exe under WindowsXP (argv[0] don't have full application path)
• added win_flex_bison-latest.zip package to freeze download link

version 2.0

• upgrade win_bison to version 2.7 and win_flex to version 2.5.37

version 1.2

• fixed win_flex.exe #line directives (some #line directives in output file were with unescaped backslashes)

version 1.1

• fixed win_flex.exe parallel invocations (now all temporary files are process specific)
• added FLEX_TMP_DIR environment variable support to redirect temporary files folder
• added '.exe' to program name in win_flex.exe --version output (CMake support)
• fixed win_bison.exe to use "/data" subfolder related to executable path rather than current working directory
• added BISON_PKGDATADIR environment variable to redirect "/data" subfolder to a different place