Re: flex for windows

Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org>
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:44:03 -0800

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From: Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.c
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:44:03 -0800
Organization: AT&T http://yahoo.sbc.com
References: 07-12-040 07-12-043
Keywords: lex, Windows
Posted-Date: 13 Dec 2007 12:06:40 EST

>> One of the lex files uses %option reentrant, which flex refuses to
>> compile. I am running version 2.5.4 under windows. ...
>
> I ran into the same problems some time ago. The only solution I found
> was to compile a newer version using cygwin. I haven't found any
> binaries of the 2.5.33 for windows at that time.
>
> The biggest problem with the cygwin version is that you have to use
> cygwin path for windows drives such as /cygdrive/c/ . If somebody has
> another solution, I'm also interested in it.


It looks like you have to run 'make check' inside cygwin anyway, or
discount environmental failures. You haven't specified what problem
you have in mind for "another solution." There are plenty of hints on
line about building or downloading flex for mingw, in case, for some
reason, you don't want to use the cygwin version.


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