Re: flex for windows

Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:02:45 -0500 (EST)

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From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.lang.c
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:02:45 -0500 (EST)
Organization: RadixNet Internet Services
References: 07-12-040 07-12-043 07-12-050
Keywords: lex, Windows
Posted-Date: 06 Jan 2008 18:02:45 EST

In comp.compilers George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:


> I've successfully compiled past versions of both Flex and Bison using
> Visual Studio (not the latest stuff though).


iirc, the "newest" stuff has a runtime dependency on m4.


I hadn't noticed the .34 release, but running a quick check, see that
not only have none of the bugs I reported some time ago been addressed, but
that this has some additional defect in the legacy tablesize options.


That means that it can't compile some files written for "older" lex's -
more than a quarter of the files I'm working with (ymmv). So don't
discard 2.5.4a - you'll continue to need it for a while.


We're talking about this -


http://flex.sourceforge.net/


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Thomas E. Dickey
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