gawk: dynamic extension and pgawk support for Win32 (patch pointer)

[Patrick TJ McPhee]

I've made some changes to the gawk 3.1.1 build to support dynamic
extensions under Win32. I also changed the pc/Makefile so that it builds
pgawk for the vcWin32 and mingw32 targets.

I've tried this only with MinGW and MS VC (5.1). It works well with VC.
I can build extension libraries with MinGW, but I can't export symbols
from gawk.exe with that compiler, so I need to use the VC gawk.exe if I
want to run them. I'll try to resolve this soon.

There's a fuller description of the changes and a link to a tar file
containing them at http://www.interlog.com/~ptjm/pcdynamic.html I'll
leave this in place until either you've indicated that it's no longer of
interest. If you think it's a good idea, I'll post the link in
comp.lang.awk.

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Patrick TJ McPhee
East York  Canada
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