# The devel/ocaml-menhir port

## ocaml-menhir-20170101p0 – OCaml parser generator for LR(1) grammars

## Description

    Menhir is a LR(1) parser generator for the OCaml programming language.
    That is, Menhir compiles LR(1) grammar specifications down to OCaml
    code. Menhir was designed and implemented by Francois Pottier and
    Yann Regis-Gianas.

    Menhir is 90% compatible with ocamlyacc. Legacy ocamlyacc grammar
    specifications are accepted and compiled by Menhir.  The resulting
    parsers run and produce correct parse trees.  However, parsers that
    explicitly invoke functions in module Parsing behave slightly
    incorrectly. For instance, the functions that provide access to
    positions return a dummy position when invoked by a Menhir parser.
    Porting a grammar specification from ocamlyacc to Menhir requires
    replacing all calls to module Parsing with new Menhir-specific
    keywords.

WWW: http://cristal.inria.fr/~fpottier/menhir/

Categories:
  devel

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake
- devel/ocaml-ocamlbuild
- lang/ocaml
- sysutils/findlib

## Run dependencies

- lang/ocaml