Venom

Venom is a parser and source analysis library for the Cobra programming language.

It's currently in the early stages of development and much work remains.

Building

Use xbuild or msbuild to compile Venom.sln.

cd /path/to/venom
xbuild Venom.sln

Venom.dll will be in bin/Debug

But first, a custom version of the Cobra compiler is required to build Venom. Apply venom.patch to the latest svn version of Cobra. That's version 3117 (post 0.9.6) at the time of this writing.

svn patch venom.patch your/cobra/workspace

Then reinstall the patched version of Cobra.

cd your/cobra/workspace
cd Source
bin/install-from-workspace

Testing

./test.sh

Using

You can't do much with Venom yet besides parse mostly error-free Cobra source code to generate an abstract syntax tree.

You can examine the CobraParser and CompilationUnit classes to start learning about the AST structure. This is easier using MonoDevelop or Xamarin Studio and the Cobra Language Binding Addin (built from source using your Venom-patched Cobra compiler).