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

On Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:16 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> 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).
>

I also have the same setup for flex and bison.

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