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+## Demo application for the ANTLR 4 C++ target
+
+This demo app shows how to build the ANTLR runtime both as dynamic and static library and how to use a parser generated from a simple demo grammar.
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+A few steps are necessary to get this to work:
+
+- Download the current ANTLR jar and place it in this folder.
+- Open the generation script for your platform (generate.cmd for Windows, generate.sh for *nix/OSX) and update the LOCATION var to the actual name of the jar you downloaded.
+- Run the generation script. This will generate a test parser + lexer, along with listener + visitor classes in a subfolder named "generated". This is where the demo application looks for these files.
+- Open the project in the folder that matches your system.
+- Compile and run.
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+Compilation is done as described in the [runtime/cpp/readme.md](../README.md) file.