Ahmed - the 'gold standard' for teaching compilers is known as the 'dragon' book. The first edition was a green dragon, written by Aho and Ullman, the current version is the red dragon and has the additional author Sethi.

http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201100886

Any tutorial wouldn't go into enough detail on all the ways a compiler can be written - and how they recognize the language that they attempting to generate code for.

Thanks a lot

While the dragon book is definitely a standard and still a great introductory text, I would recommend to look a bit further, especially if you are interested in advanced static analysis, optimization and code generation. For these topics, I would recommend Steven S. Muchnik's "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation" and Srikant/Shankar's "The Compiler Design Handbook".

Hi,

I followed this tutorial. You can find the pdf online:

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/compiler.pdf

It's recent and clear (step by step), at least for the beginning that I did. Since this time, the author seems to have made several updates.

Hi Ahmed,

Maybe you would like to take a look at a Stanford compilers course on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/compilers

Actually a new cycle starts on Monday, so you can start watching it and see if it suits your needs.

Good luck,

- Stratos

For a hands-on introduction, have a look into "The Architecture Of Open Source Applications" by Amy Brown and Greg Wilson, which has a chapter about LLVM. And if you want to build your own compiler, "Language Implementation Patterns: Create Your Own Domain-Specific and General Programming Languages" by Terence Parr is a good starting point as well.

Thank you all for your great help