flex bison windows introduction - c

Question

As I'm new to lexer and parser, so I'm trying to read and understand others code.
Here is the code i'm trying to use : https://gist.github.com/justjkk/436828
But it's giving me error. How can I resolve this?
E:\flex_bison_test>gcc lex.yy.c y.tab.c -o json.exe
json.l: In function 'yylex':
json.l:34:11: warning: assignment to 'YYSTYPE' {aka 'int'} from 'char *' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
yylval=strclone(yytext);
^
json.l:38:11: warning: assignment to 'YYSTYPE' {aka 'int'} from 'char *' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
yylval=strclone(yytext);
^
json.l: In function 'strclone':
json.l:82:15: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strlen' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
int len = strlen(str);
^~~~~~
json.l:82:15: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strlen'
json.l:82:15: note: include '<string.h>' or provide a declaration of 'strlen'
json.l:79:1:
+#include <string.h>
%%
json.l:82:15:
int len = strlen(str);
^~~~~~
json.l:84:5: warning: implicit declaration of function 'strcpy' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
strcpy(clone,str);
^~~~~~
json.l:84:5: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strcpy'
json.l:84:5: note: include '<string.h>' or provide a declaration of 'strcpy'
y.tab.c: In function 'yyparse':
y.tab.c:627:16: warning: implicit declaration of function 'yylex' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
# define YYLEX yylex ()
^~~~~
y.tab.c:1272:16: note: in expansion of macro 'YYLEX'
yychar = YYLEX;
^~~~~
y.tab.c:1540:7: warning: implicit declaration of function 'yyerror'; did you mean 'yyerrok'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
yyerror (YY_("syntax error"));
^~~~~~~
yyerrok
json.y: At top level:
json.y:80:6: warning: conflicting types for 'yyerror'
void yyerror (char const *s) {
^~~~~~~
y.tab.c:1540:7: note: previous implicit declaration of 'yyerror' was here
yyerror (YY_("syntax error"));
^~~~~~~
E:\flex_bison_test>
Or these should remain as it is.
All the commands, I have given :
flex json.l
bison -dy json.y
gcc lex.yy.c y.tab.c -o json.exe

Answer 1

Simply:
#include <string.h>
in your flex definitions section on top of json.l should fix it for you.
There's also a Makefile in the repository you pointed to. Maybe you should use that. You don't seem to be generating the parser files properly. See comment below.
As for the remaining warnings:
warning: implicit declaration of function 'yyerror';
warning: implicit declaration of function 'yylex';
These can be easily fixed by adding declarations of yylex() and yyerror should be present in the bison prologue section at the top of your json.y:
%{
int yylex();
void yyerror(const char *s);
%}
As for these ones:
json.l:34:11: warning: assignment to 'YYSTYPE' {aka 'int'} from 'char *' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
yylval=strclone(yytext);
^
json.l:38:11: warning: assignment to 'YYSTYPE' {aka 'int'} from 'char *' makes integer from pointer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
yylval=strclone(yytext);
^
They're a bit more subtle. I would suggest have a look here on how to use yylval for correctly passing on strings from the lex's tokens into the parser's actions. The problem now is that yylval is a bare int but it ends up being assigned char pointers for both NUMBER and STRING tokens.