Looking for Information of building a compiler

[BenJones]

Hi, I recently been reading a few things on writing compilers and had a go at just writing my own little VMs just toy ones and read few compiler books I recenly brought the Dragon book, but I am looking for something where I can build like a toy language that targets the .NET framework and compiles down to a exe, I came across this page.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/ar...k-using-csharp

it looks quite good the only thing I find frustrating is all the same code snippets are all on one line pretty stupid really, I am looking for a small project I can learn from a tutor or a book that teaches you how to make languages for the .net framework, I did come across this book

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Build-Langu.../dp/1590591348

But from the comments and other ones I read it seems a pretty rubbish book any other books you can suggest or suggestions to where I can start or maybe some tutors on Reflection.Emit and were to get started.



Hope someone can help any ideas or info will be help full
Thanks.

[dday9]

I went down this path a while back too and got a ton of pushback on the forum for some reason.

A good "jumping point" would probably be to build a domain specific language (aka DSL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language

The advantages of building a DSL is that it still requires the basics of a compiler only on a significantly smaller scale.

Here are some book suggestions:

• "Domain-Specific Languages" - Martin Fowler https://archive.org/details/domainspecificla0000fowl/
• "DSL Engineering: Designing, Implementing and Using Domain-Specific Languages" - Markus Voelter

I personally read the former but I cannot vouch for the latter.

[BenJones]

Thanks for the info dday9 very helpful, you think there be more info about building compilers for the .net framework but there is not much about. there seems to be more for building compiled languages I got A few books here, but some seem way over my head and don't really produce a working compiler at the end of the book.
It did find this today so I am going to have a read tonight
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles...e-NET-Compiler

I think if someone made a book about it it whould get a lot of coverage maybe someone will write one one day.