Troubles going beyond extracting the bison files on a Windows-XP computer

[Lawrence Patrick Somerville]

My computer has a Windows-XP, Home-Edition operating system with either 240 
or 256 megabytes of random access memory (RAM).  In the command-prompt mode 
when I go to the directory containing my extracted bison files from 
bison-1.75.tar.gz, or close to it, I typed "./configure" according to the 
Bison INSTALL file's instructions.  But the computer didn't recognize the 
period at the beginning of "./configure".  I also tried typing just plain 
"configure" and received the response that my computer's memory was 
insufficient.  What do I do to install+compile bison 1.75 on my computer?  
My goal is have Visual C++ 5.0 recognize a "bison" command in an 
Apache-2.0.43 (including Secure-Sockets-Layer- (SSL-)0.9.6 security built 
from http://www.openssl.org/) build after placing probably a bison.exe-type 
file in my computer's path.  Thanks in advance for taking the time to help 
me.

Pat

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