The Eclipse JavaCC plugin and Mac OS X

01 Apr 2009

Lately I've been trying to get the Eclipse JavaCC plugin to work on my Mac 10.5.6 laptop with Eclipse 3.4.2. I was having all sorts of problems... basically the ones which folks are discussing here. After fiddling around a bit I ended up checking out the plugin and rebuilding the plugin.jar file using Java 1.5 and that did the trick. So, to get the Eclipse JavaCC plugin v1.5.13 working, try this:

Hopefully that helps someone. And if you're working with JavaCC, check out my JavaCC book!