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wish: Win flex-bison #26

Open helmesjo opened 2 years ago

helmesjo commented 2 years ago

https://sourceforge.net/projects/winflexbison/ | https://github.com/lexxmark/winflexbison

Win flex-bison is a windows port the Flex (the fast lexical analyser) and Bison (GNU parser generator).

Build prerequisites "_Both win_flex and winbison are based on upstream sources but depend on system libraries only"

helmesjo commented 2 years ago

Available alternatives:

boris-kolpackov commented 2 years ago

Interesting. Would be good to understand if this still uses (bundled) gnulib. I understand that support for Windows is one of the main reasons for gnulib's existence.

helmesjo commented 2 years ago

I added the github repo to the description. Searching for gnulib in that one did find some clues, including this: image

This would be the commit.