Re: [XBoard-devel] Re: Fwd: Winboard Source missing sounds folder

[Eric Mullins]

Arun Persaud wrote:
> Hi
>
>   
> > I can answer that.  It is possible to generate the one in the winboard
> > directory if you have cygwin and flex, but we try to assume people don't
> > have flex and therefore include a pre-generated parser.c in the winboard
> > directory.  We've had issues with this before, and my with recent
> > changes to get compiling working again, I noticed it happened again.  I
> > don't know if my update changed the parser.c timestamp or not, actually.
> >     
>
> Is it save for me to just copy the latest parser.c from the xboard
> directory to the winboard one or does windows need a modified version?
> If so, I can just do that everytime before I release...
>   


Probably.  When cygwin/flex generates it, it comes from parser.l.  So it 
really shouldn't matter if flex runs on linux or windows.  Just make 
sure the timestamp on parser.c is later than the one on parser.l.