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diff --git a/README_d/README.pc b/README_d/README.pc index f8addb09..63ba473e 100644 --- a/README_d/README.pc +++ b/README_d/README.pc @@ -10,16 +10,17 @@ DOS, and Windows32 with rsxnt), and Jan-Jaap van der Heijden and Mumit Khan to compile and run gawk under Windows. For Cygwin, building and installation is the same as under Unix: - tar -xvpzf gawk-4.0.x.tar.gz - cd gawk-4.0.x + tar -xvpzf gawk-4.1.x.tar.gz + cd gawk-4.1.x ./configure && make The `configure' step takes a long time, but works otherwise. -******************************** N O T E ********************************** -* The `|&' operator only works when gawk is compiled for Cygwin. Neither * -* socket support nor two-way pipes work in any other Windows environment! * -*************************************************************************** +******************************** N O T E ******************************* +* The `|&' operator only works when gawk is compiled for Cygwin or for * +* MinGW. Neither socket support nor two-way pipes work in any other * +* Windows environment! * +************************************************************************ Building gawk ------------- @@ -28,7 +29,8 @@ Copy the files in the `pc' directory (EXCEPT for `ChangeLog') to the directory with the rest of the gawk sources. (The subdirectories of `pc' need not be copied.) The Makefile contains a configuration section with comments, and may need to be edited in order to work -with your make utility. +with your make utility. If you are building with MinGW, copy the +file Makefile.ext to extension/Makefile. The "prefix" line in the Makefile is used during the install of gawk (and in building igawk.bat and igawk.cmd). Since the libraries for @@ -40,6 +42,10 @@ OS/2 versions. A list of targets will be printed if the make command is given without a target. As an example, to build gawk using the djgpp tools, enter "make djgpp". +For the MinGW build, after you build in the top-level directory, chdir +to the extension subdirectory and say "make" there to build the +extensions. + Testing and installing gawk --------------------------- @@ -54,9 +60,11 @@ and batch files. See the configuration section of the makefile. The file test/Makefile will need some editing (especially for DOS). A sample makefile with comments appears in pc/Makefile.tst, and can be -used to modify test/Makefile for your platform. In addition, some -files in the test directory may need to have their end-of-line markers -converted, as described in Makefile.tst. +used to modify test/Makefile for your platform. For starters, just +copy pc/Makefile.tst to test/Makefile, then walk through the variables +defined at the beginning and change them as appropriate for your +setup. In addition, some files in the test directory may need to have +their end-of-line markers converted, as described in Makefile.tst. As with building gawk, the OS, shell, and long filename issues come into play when testing, too. If you are testing gawk on a LFN aware system with |