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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk compiling on Windows
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jungle Boogie |
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Re: [bug-gawk] gawk compiling on Windows |
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Thu, 21 Dec 2017 09:22:06 -0800 |
On 15 December 2017 at 00:41, <address@hidden> wrote:
> jungle Boogie <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> Whoops, looks like I should have read this:
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/PC-Compiling.html#PC-Compiling
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> 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.
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It seems newer versions of gawk on Windows, require a least a couple
DLLS in the path with the gawk binary.
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?
> Arnold
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