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Chapter 16: Addons

16.1 Addon definition

Addons are .jar-packaged modules for Quail that can modify Quail behaviour.

They can add:

• Preprocessor directives
• Parser annotations
• Builtin libraries
• and they can modify runtime when it is created

16.2 Loading addons

Addons can be attached with a global flag:

quail -G.addons=path_to_addon_jar

Multiple addons specified as follows

quail -G.addons=path_to_addon1;path_to_addon2

16.3 Creating addons

You can find information about how to create addons on Quail Developer Tutorials