Re: Flex 2.5.19 native compile for Win32

[W. L. Estes]

On Thursday, 12 September 2002,17:32 -0500, dan.johnson2 wrote:

> I am looking for guidance on how to make the most recent Flex version
> compile and run on Win2k. I have seen the 2.5.4a version with the MSVC make,
> but it still looks like a substantial port effort to get it to run for Win32
> (with Flexdef.h mods as a start), so I'm hoping I'm missing something
> simple. I am using MSVC, and I also use Borland 5.5.

I can't offer much specific advice as we develop flex on platforms
where more-or-less posix compliant tools are available as a part of
the operating system. I've seen a couple of flavors of unix-on-windows
mentioned on this list, but I don't want to be seen as recommending
them as I don't know enough to recommend them or not.

> Also, when installing, does configure work on windows machines (MS-DOS)? I'm
> missing some steps on how to install and run these programs that were
> probably developed on Unix/Linux machines on my MS-DOS machine. Any help, or
> if you could point me to some resource pages I'd greatly appreciate it.

configure wants a bourne-style shell to run. again, see the remarks
above about tools.

--Will