In ANTLR 3, how do I generate a lexer (and parser) at runtime instead of ahead of time?

Question

I want to generate an antlr lexer at runtime -- that is, generate the grammar and from the grammar generate the lexer class, and its supporting bits at runtime. I am happy to fe

Answer 1

Have you tried calling org.antlr.Tool.main(String[]) with an appropriate String[] argument?

If that's too cumbersome, you could reverse engineer the Tool class (source code) to figure out how it works, and how to do the specific tasks you need to do.