我同意龙书的参考;IMO，它是编译器构造的权威指南。准备好接受一些核心理论吧。

If you want a book that is lighter on theory, Game Scripting Mastery might be a better book for you. If you are a total newbie at compiler theory, it provides a gentler introduction. It doesn't cover more practical parsing methods (opting for non-predictive recursive descent without discussing LL or LR parsing), and as I recall, it doesn't even discuss any sort of optimization theory. Plus, instead of compiling to machine code, it compiles to a bytecode that is supposed to run on a VM that you also write.

这仍然是一本不错的读物，尤其是如果你能在亚马逊上以便宜的价格买到的话。如果你只想简单介绍编译器，《Game Scripting Mastery》是个不错的选择。如果你想先玩硬核游戏，那么你应该选择《龙之书》。

每当我想尝试一种新的语言想法时，我就写一个简单的解析器，让它生成一些容易获得良好编译器的语言，比如C。

你认为c++是如何完成的?

Donald Knuth的《计算机编程的艺术》最初是作为编译器编写的教程而写的，这让我很惊讶。

当然，Knuth博士对主题深入研究的倾向导致编译器写作教程被扩展到大约9卷，其中只有3卷真正出版了。这是一个关于编程主题的相当完整的阐述，涵盖了关于编写编译器需要了解的所有细节。

Not included in the list so far is this book: Basics of Compiler Design (Torben Mogensen) (from the dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen) I'm also interested in learning about compilers and plan to enter that industry in the next couple of years. This book is the ideal theory book to begin learning compilers as far as I can see. It's FREE to copy and reproduce, cleanly and carefully written and gives it to you in plain English without any code but still presents the mechanics by way of instructions and diagrams etc. Worth a look imo.

龙之书绝对是关于“构建编译器”的书，但是如果您的语言不像当前这一代语言那么复杂，那么您可能想看看设计模式中的解释器模式。

书中的示例设计了一种类似正则表达式的语言，并且经过了深思熟虑，但正如书中所述，它有助于思考整个过程，但实际上只在小型语言上有效。然而，用这种模式为一种小型语言编写解释器要快得多，而不必学习所有不同类型的解析器，yacc和lex等等……

如果你想使用功能强大的高级工具，而不是自己构建一切，那么阅读本课程的项目和阅读材料是一个很好的选择。这是一门语言课程，由Java解析器引擎ANTLR的作者编写。你可以从Pragmatic Programmers网站上获得这门课程的PDF版本。

The course goes over the standard compiler compiler stuff that you'd see elsewhere: parsing, types and type checking, polymorphism, symbol tables, and code generation. Pretty much the only thing that isn't covered is optimizations. The final project is a program that compiles a subset of C. Because you use tools like ANTLR and LLVM, it's feasible to write the entire compiler in a single day (I have an existence proof of this, though I do mean ~24 hours). It's heavy on practical engineering using modern tools, a bit lighter on theory.

顺便说一下，LLVM非常棒。在许多情况下，你可能会编译到汇编，你最好编译到LLVM的中间表示。它是更高级别的、跨平台的，LLVM非常擅长从中生成优化的程序集。