Building pyA2L¶
pyA2L uses code generated from ANTLR grammars for much of the heavy lifting when parsing ASAP2 documents. This code is not version controlled, but instead generated during build-time. That means that if you just git clone’d this repository, it is not yet ready to use. You must first build it, which requires a working Java installation to run ANTLR.
Code generation¶
To generate code, call setup.py with the antlr command:
python setup.py antlr
However, it is generally not necessary to run this command directly.
Development environment¶
If you want to contribute to the pyA2L project, running
python setup.py develop
will also auto-generate code.
Binary distribution¶
The same is true when creating a binary for distribution with
python setup.py bdist
or
python setup.py bdist_wheel