Re: [bug-gawk] gawk compiling on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: jungle Boogie <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:22:06 -0800
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> On 15 December 2017 at 00:41,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> > jungle Boogie <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >> Whoops, looks like I should have read this:
> >> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/PC-Compiling.html#PC-Compiling
> >
> > Indeed. The doc also mentions https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/
> > from which you can download pre-built binaries. Another option is Cygwin,
> > which has gawk 4.2.0, and for which compilation is the same as on *nix.
> >
> 
> It seems newer versions of gawk on Windows, require a least a couple
> DLLS in the path with the gawk binary.

In the ezwinports binaries, those DLLs were always required, at least
since Gawk 4.0.1.  Gawk 4.1.0 added MPFR and GMP, as I build Gawk with
MPFR support.

Those DLLs are in the Gawk binary zip, so once you unzip the archive,
you should have a working Gawk.

> I was previously using a much older version of gawk that didn't rely
> on the DLLs, 4.1.6 I think was the version.
> 
> Is this just because of new functionality within gawk 4.2.0?

Maybe you mean 3.1.6?  That was before ezwinports, so you probably
used a different build with different functionalities.  And yes, Gawk
4 added more features.