Flex and Bison for Windows

Visual Studio 2005 Solution files for soapcpp2 and wsdl2h are included.

If not already installed, install the Platform SDK (R2) for winsock2.h.

To build soapcpp2.exe, first install Bison and Flex (in the default dirs):

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bison.htm http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/flex.htm

then add the FlexBison.rules as explained here:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730877(VS.80).aspx

These custom-build rules are used to build the scanner and parser for soapcpp2.exe.

To build wsdl2h.exe, you first need to build soapcpp2.exe and install it in Program Files or copy it to the wsdl directory. This is needed to execute the custom-build step on wsdl.h to generate wsdlStub.h, wsdlH.h, and wsdlC.cpp.

Build Rules for soapcpp2.exe VS 2008 and 2010

To build soapcpp2.exe you need to install Flex and Bison. To do so, you need to create custom build rules to compile .l and .y files with Flex and Bison.

Please see:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa730877(VS.80).aspx#vccustombr_topic3

In VS2008, there is UI available to help you create the custom build rule.

Make sure you have flex.exe, bison.exe, and m4.exe on the system search path.

• Right click on the .l file and select properties
• Configuration -> All Configurations
• General -> Item Typ e-> Custom Build Tool
• Apply
• Custom Build Tool -> General -> Command Line -> flex -olexer.c lexer.l
• Custom Build Tool -> General -> Outputs -> lexer.c
• Custom Build Tool -> General -> Additional Dependencies -> parser.y parser.c
• Apply
• Select the .y file in the solution explorer
• Configuration -> All Configurations
• General -> Item Type -> Custom Build Tool
• Apply
• Custom Build Tool -> General -> Command Line -> bison -oparser.c parser.y
• Custom Build Tool -> General -> Outputs -> parser.c parser.h

In VS2010, there may not be a UI available to create the custom build rules. To add or modify build rules in VS2010 you need to edit:

%ProgramFiles%\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\BuildCustomizations

and/or

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\BuildCustomizations