Re: Newbie: Installation on Win32

[Nigel Stewart & Fiona Smith]

Justin,

One option is to install Cygwin, which is a complete Unix environment
for Win32.  http://www.cygwin.com/

Another option is to find a pre-built bison binary for Win32,
such as:
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

These are probably easier options than tweaking your windows compiler
to make your own binary.

Regards,

Nigel Stewart

> Hi,
>
> Please forgive me if I'm breaking any Newbie rules on this forum.  I didn't
> see any rules posted so I'm taking the chance of not offending anyone.  I'm
> not sure I know how to install Bison on my Windows XP machine.
>
> I've downloaded the Bison 1.875 and unzipped the package, and have read
> thought the INSTALL file.  But all the directions pertain to the UNIX
> platform.  Should I just simply compile the source?  What will happen if I
> don't run the configure file?Are there any environment variables I should
> set? Can anyone point me in the right direction, I didn't see any
> documentation referring to Windows?
>
> Thanks,
> Justin