Xtext-Based Eclipse Editor For Linker Configuration File

This paper presents implementation of the text editor for linker configuration files. The editor contains tools and options such as spell checker, autocomplete or syntax highlighting, etc. which facilitate development process. The solution contains a description of the syntax that should be used for writing configuration files which further determine the manner of interpretation and linking of object files. Xtext Eclipse framework has been used as development platform. Xtext provides very sophisticated, modern and practical API for describing and defining huge range of domain-specific languages. Syntax developed in Xtext is independent of Eclipse IDE and it can be used in any Java environment.