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javacc / javaccPlugin

A JavaCC plugin for Gradle

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javaCCPlugin in Android Studio #72

Closed Zemedk closed 5 months ago

Zemedk commented 5 months ago

Hi, I want to use JavaCC in Android studio. but I don't master gradle. I applied what is written here but I couldn't get it to work. InputDirectory, OutputDirectory didn't work.

zbynek commented 5 months ago

Hi,

one option that works well is to split your Gradle project into 2 modules:

app module using Android Gradle plugin
lib module using java-library plugin You then keep your .jj files in lib and use the standard setup of the JavaCC plugin there. In app you just need to declare dependency on lib, something like
```
dependencies {
api project(':lib')
}
```
That way you can benefit from the automatic configuration of task dependencies and generated source location provided by this project. Advantage of this approach is that your lib module is not dependent on Android runtime and you can e.g. run tests for it more easily.

It should be also straightforward to use JavaCC without splitting into modules, you just have to make sure that

Android's compile task depends on compileJavacc
your generated Java files are seen by the Android Java compiler Both of these requirements are covered by https://stackoverflow.com/a/34340028

Let me know if this helps.