Re: Bison on Windows

[wim delvaux]

On Wednesday 28 January 2004 02:01, address@hidden wrote:
> P.S. I'm trying to use Microsoft Visual C++ 7.x as the build tool.

        Try using cygwin.  You will need the cygwin dll to run the bison but it 
will
        compile cleanly and you will not notice the difference

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:55 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: Bison on Windows
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm starting to get very frustrated trying to build bison on windows.  I
> started out trying to build version 1.875, but I'm getting lots of
> compiler errors related to pipes and pid_t and fork in subpipe.c/.h.
>
> So, I tried to build version 1.33 instead, since I found an archive on a
> newsgroup for building that on NT, and got the code to build.  However,
> it's looking for bison.simple and bison.hairy files.  I observe also
> that vison 1.33 has an M4 directory, so I assume that 1.33 is using the
> M4 type skeleton files, and therefore the archive I found that patches
> output is actually in error, but I'm not sure.
>
> Therefore, I would like to leave 1.33 and go back to 1.875, but I seem
> to be without support for functions such as pipe and fork, and the type
> pid_t.  There are a lot of other compiler errors for 1.875 also that I
> haven't even tried to resolve.
>
> Bottom line: How should I handle subpipe.c on NT?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad