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README for Lexilla library.



The Lexilla library contains a set of lexers and folders that provides support for

programming, mark-up, and data languages for the Scintilla source code editing

component.



Lexilla is made available as both a shared library and static library.

The shared library is called liblexilla.so / liblexilla.dylib / lexilla.dll on Linux / macOS /

Windows.

The static library is called liblexilla.a when built with GCC or Clang and liblexilla.lib

when built with MSVC.



Lexilla is developed on Windows, Linux, and macOS and requires a C++17 compiler.

It may work on other Unix platforms like BSD but that is not a development focus.

MSVC 2019.4, GCC 9.0, Clang 9.0, and Apple Clang 11.0 are known to work.



MSVC is only available on Windows.



GCC and Clang work on Windows and Linux.



On macOS, only Apple Clang is available.



Lexilla requires some headers from Scintilla to build and expects a directory named

"scintilla" containing a copy of Scintilla 5+ to be a peer of the Lexilla top level

directory conventionally called "lexilla".



To use GCC, run lexilla/src/makefile:

	make



To use Clang, run lexilla/test/makefile:

	make CLANG=1

On macOS, CLANG is set automatically so this can just be

	make



To use MSVC, run lexilla/test/lexilla.mak:

	nmake -f lexilla.mak



To build a debugging version of the library, add DEBUG=1 to the command:

	make DEBUG=1

	

The built libraries are copied into lexilla/bin.



Lexilla relies on a list of lexers from the lexilla/lexers directory. If any changes are

made to the set of lexers then source and build files can be regenerated with the

lexilla/scripts/LexillaGen.py script which requires Python 3 and is tested with 3.7+.

Unix:

	python3 LexillaGen.py

Windows:

	pyw LexillaGen.py