bisonc++ command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

bisonc++: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: bisonc++: command not found

Solutions to bisonc++: command not found

How To Fix bisonc++: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu bisonc++ is provided by bisonc++ package.

bisonc++ is:

Bisonc++ was designed after `bison++’, created by Alain Coetmeur. Bisonc++ adds to bison++ a cleaner class-design, using a base-class to communicate lexical tokens to a lexical scanner.

Since bisonc++ generates the parser class as well as the parsing function. The class can easily be provided with additional members without needing polymorphic functions. Consequently, classes generated by bisonc++ have no virtual members and actually have but one public member: parse(), replacing the old-style bison and bison++ yyparse() function.

Bisonc++ offers many options, among which an option to define classes generated by bisonc++ in a separate namespace. This allows developers to define additional symbols, even outside of the class generated by bisonc++, without encountering name-collision problems. With bisonc++, artificial means to prevent name-collisions, like bison and bison++’s yy-convention are not required anymore when using bisonc++. Bisonc++ merely generates C++ code. If C code is required, bison should be used. Bisonc++’s grammar requirements are highly compatible with bison’s requirements, so converting a bison grammar into a bisonc++ grammar should be fairly simple.

In addition to the bisonc++ parser generator itself and several skeleton files, the package contains an extensive man-page, a full manual rewritten after the original bison manual, and several examples.

Some history: Bisonc++ versions 0.98 is a complete rewrite of an LALR(1) parser generator, as described in Aho, Sethi and Ullman’s (1986) book Compilers' (a.k.a. the Dragon Book’). Version 0.98 was completed in May 2005. Another major rewrite was completed one year later, May 2006, resulting in version 1.00.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install bisonc++

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install bisonc++.

sudo apt -y install bisonc++

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install bisonc++

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix bisonc++ command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.