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Here are 20 free books on compiler construction to help you develop your own programming languages and compilers! 

Want to develop programming languages and their associated compilers? Willing to learn hands-on how to construct a self-compiling compiler? Here are 20 free e-books to help you learn and understand compiler construction.



1. Implementing Programming Languages by Aarne Ranta, 2012

This book follows a theory-based practical approach, where theoretical models serve as blueprint for actual coding. The reader is guided to build compilers and interpreters. The solutions are moreover portable to different implementation languages.

2. Compiler Construction - Wikibooks, 2011

The purpose of this book is to provide practical advice on writing a compiler, together with some examples of both compilers and interpreters, in order to break away from the concept that building compilers and interpreters are impossible tasks.

3. Compiler Design: Theory, Tools, and Examples by Seth D. Bergmann - Rowan University, 2010

This is an introductory level text for compiler design courses, that emphasizes problem solving skills. The concepts are clearly presented with sampler problems and diagrams to illustrate the concepts. The text also covers lex and yacc.

4. Compilers and Compiler Generators by P.D. Terry - Rhodes University, 1996

Designed for computer science students studying for a second year course in compilers/programming language translation, this text manages to combine theory, applications and use of compiler writing tools to give a solid introduction to the subject.

5. Lets Build a Scripting Engine-Compiler by S. Arbayo, 2010

This is a very hands-on approach to crafting a compiler and it does not follow any pre-defined set of rules. It is the authors intent to take some of the mystery out of what goes into making a working scripting engine - compiler.

6. Lightweight Compiler Techniques by Nils M Holm - Lulu Press, 2006

This book explains compiler construction in simple terms and by means of practical examples, but without avoiding the fundamental theory. It does not stop where other books do, and takes you on a tour through the whole compilation process.

7. Language Translation Using PCCTS and C++ by Terence John Parr - Automata Publishing Company, 1993

This book is a reference guide for the parser generator ANTLR, ANother Tool for Language Recognition, and the tree-parser generator SORCERER, which is suited to source-to-source translation. It is valuable to scientists, engineers, or programmers.

8. Bison: The Yacc-compatible Parser Generator by Charles Donnelly, Richard Stallman - Free Software Foundation, 2009

Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into an LALR(1) or GLR parser for that grammar. You need to be fluent in C or C++ programming in order to use Bison or to understand this manual.

9. The Power PC Compiler Writers Guide by Steve Hoxey, at al. - Warthman Associates, 1996

This book describes the code patterns that perform well on PowerPC processors. The book will be particularly helpful to compiler developers and application-code specialists who are already familiar with optimizing compiler technology.

10. Understanding and Writing Compilers by Richard Bornat - Middlesex University, 2008

This book attempts to explain and demystify the principles of compiler writing so that you can go out and build a working compiler of your own. There is enough detail in this book for you to build a compiler for quite a complicated language.

11. Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) by Vincent Chung - Free Software Foundation, Inc., 2001

This manual documents how to run, install and port the GNU compiler, as well as its new features. It corresponds to GCC version 3.0. Only the options for the C, Objective-C, and C++ compilers and those of the GCC core are discussed.

12. GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals - Free Software Foundation, 2008

This manual documents the internals of the GNU compilers, including how to port them to new targets and some information about how to write front ends for new languages. It corresponds to the compilers (GCC) version 4.4.0.

13. Project Oberon - The Design of an Operating System and Compiler by Niklaus Wirth, J�rg Gutknecht, 2005

Here are the results of Project Oberon, which goal was to design an entire system from scratch. It gives advice on how a system might be built, and demonstrates how one was built. Program listings alone contain the ultimate explanations.

14. Lets Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw, 1995

A tutorial on the theory and practice of developing language parsers and compilers. It covers every aspect of compiler construction, programming language design, and building a working compiler. More theoretical aspects of the subject are ignored.

15. An Introduction to Compilers by Dirk Vermeir - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2009

Contents: Introduction; Lexical analysis; Parsing; Checking static semantics; Intermediate code generation; Optimization of intermediate code; Code generation; Introduction to x86 Assembler Programming under Linux; Mc: the Micro-x86 Compiler; etc.

16. Compiler Construction using Flex and Bison by Anthony A. Aaby - Walla Walla College, 2004

Guide to compiler construction using tools like Flex and Bison. Using these tools, you can focus on the concept of compiler without the hassle of building a compiler from scratch. You are required to be fluent in C programming.

17. Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth - Addison-Wesley Pub, 1996

This book has emerged from the authors lecture notes for an introductory course in compiler design at ETH Z�rich. This book will try to explain why this subject is considered as important and relevant to computer science students in general.

18. Basics of Compiler Design by Torben Mogensen - Lulu.com, 2007

The book written for use in an introductory compiler course. It is intended to convey the general picture without going into extreme detail. It should give the students an understanding of how compilers work and the ability to make simple compilers.

19. Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide by Dick Grune, Ceriel J. H. Jacobs - Ellis Horwood Ltd, 1998

This book treats parsing in great depth. It offers a clear and thorough discussion of different parsing techniques with their applications, including error recovery techniques. The text covers almost all parsing methods, not just the popular ones.

20. The GENTLE Compiler Construction System by Friedrich Wilhelm Schr�er - R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2005

This book presents Gentle, an integrated system for compiler writers. Gentle supports the description of compilers at a very high level and relieves users from the need to deal with implementation details, significantly increasing productivity. 

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