Re: MSVC project file added to flex

[Bruce Lilly]

Building and running flex 2.5.4a on a Windows machine is trivial
with the UWIN package (http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/uwin/).

It's the usual ./configure ; make ; make install routine.  UWIN
comes with a real shell (ksh), gmake, and the usual contingent
of tools. There's a "cc" front end that invokes the MSVC compiler;
alternatively, you can use gcc, which has been ported to UWIN.

I haven't tried it yet with the latest beta version of flex...

Also, w/o UWIN (or similar packages such as Cygwin), MSVC can
use a Makefile, but MS has made it rather cumbersome to do so.

Wayne Green wrote:
> I sometimes build GNU projects with the Microsloth compiler. The main issue with
> Microsloth environments is the lack of a ./configure mechanism that the MSDOS
> casual programmer can understand. I would recommend including a
> config.h.msdos file that meets the MSDOS requirements, in its own directory
> and a readme.msdos that says to use it. (A configure.bat file in the
> msdos directory might be ok). There are reasonable GNU make program ports
> that can be acquired and used, the readme.msdos file might mention
> a few places.
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