Re: Winflex

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>
> Yes. I spent a few cents and a few hours wrestling with it. AFAICT your are
> hosed on 64bit Windows. I can't get flex built and Cygwin is behaving very
> oddly. There are indications that the problem could be fairly deep - see
> <http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin(at)cygwin(dot)com/msg102463.html>

What Linda describes there is all normal behaviour for a 32 bit app on
64 bit Windows. Windows is providing a virtual 32 bit environment,
where for the most part the 32 bit app doesn't realise it's running on
64 bit. Unfortunately there are always things that look a bit odd due
to this, but normally I've found that the 32bit code runs fine, it
just looks odd from Explorer or 64 bit apps because of the
folder/registry redirection that happens behind the scenes.

> I can try again with Cygwin 1.7. and see if that improves matters, but I bet
> it doesn't.

What about msys? Or is that not capable of building the newer versions of flex?

The other possible option that I hesitate to suggest is Windows
Services for Unix or SUA as I think it's now called.

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