Re: [bug-gawk] Gawk compile error Mingw32

[arnold]

Manuel Collado <address@hidden> wrote:

> El 27/10/2016 14:38, Vincent Belaïche escribió:
> > Answers embedded below...
> >
> > Le 27/10/2016 à 09:04, address@hidden a écrit :
> > [...]
> >> Can you use the MinGW binary that Eli builds?  Do you have to
> >> compile gawk yourself?  (See https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/)
> >
> > No, I don't have to compile gawk myself, I would be quite happy to have
> > a binary. I have downloaded Eli's gawk binary, but it is a native MSW
> > application, not an MSYS application. It is easy to test that it outputs
> > CRLF EOLs, not LF EOL's, and that the the 'system(...)'  function calls
> > cmd.exe, not sh.
>
> Then, the obvious choice seems to be Cygwin, instead of MSYS or DJGPP. 
> You have to compile gawk from source, but this is a straightforward 
> action that works out of the box.

I agree that Cygwin is the way to go.  I am pretty sure that the gawk
on Cygwin is now 4.1.4, so all that's necessary is to install it.

Thanks,

Arnold