Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk compile error Mingw32

[Manuel Collado]

El 27/10/2016 14:38, Vincent Belaïche escribió:
> Answers embedded below...
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> Le 27/10/2016 à 09:04, address@hidden a écrit :
> [...]
> > Can you use the MinGW binary that Eli builds?  Do you have to
> > compile gawk yourself?  (See https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/)
>
> No, I don't have to compile gawk myself, I would be quite happy to have
> a binary. I have downloaded Eli's gawk binary, but it is a native MSW
> application, not an MSYS application. It is easy to test that it outputs
> CRLF EOLs, not LF EOL's, and that the the 'system(...)'  function calls
> cmd.exe, not sh.

Then, the obvious choice seems to be Cygwin, instead of MSYS or DJGPP. 
You have to compile gawk from source, but this is a straightforward 
action that works out of the box.

HTH
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