Re: What's the best way to get flex and bison on Windows?

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 11:25:55AM +1300, Thomas Munro wrote:
> You can see MinGW, MSYS and Cygwin there, and I suspect that one of
> those is the answer, but I'm not familiar with them or what else might
> be available to install popular F/OSS bits and pieces on that
> operating system, because I really only know how to Unix. Maybe flex
> and bison are already installed somewhere or easily installable with a
> shell command? Would someone who knows about development on Windows
> like to make a recommendation, or perhaps provide a tweaked version of
> the attached patch[1]?

On my Windows workstations, I use bison and flex bundled in MinGW
which are located under c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\. (Then, for a MSVC
build, I just append this path to $ENV{PATH} with a semicolon to do
the separation but that's a separate story).
--
Michael