pdxparse

A parser for scripts used in Paradox Development Studios games, written in Haskell.

Currently only Europa Universalis IV is supported, but there are plans for other games as well.

Building

The easiest way to get it running is to use Stack. Install it, then cd to the directory where you cloned pdxparse and type:

$ stack install --install-ghc

This will automatically install the compiler and all dependencies. (If you already have GHC 7.10.3 installed, you can probably omit --install-ghc.)

You may also be able to just use cabal-install if you have it:

$ cabal install --prefix=/path/to/install

Usage

pdxparse should be run from the command line. It will create a directory output in the current directory. Its structure is the same as that of the game directory, except that the .txt files are directories. Each file in these directories is one "object": one event, one decision, etc.

If you got EU4 from Steam, pdxparse should be able to find it automatically as long as your steamapps folder is in the default location. If it's somewhere else, you'll need to edit settings.yml to point to it.

Currently there is no command line processing; it just processes everything it finds and puts the results in the directory output. There is, however, a clause in Main.hs that restricts the parser to only attempt to process certain files. This is to make the program finish sooner while testing. If you want to process only certain files, uncomment those lines, edit the list to include only the files you want, and rebuild.