On 01/22/2018 03:34 PM, Mark Rivers wrote:
>> I think I should update the link in the docs to point at the re2c
>> home page (http://re2c.org/), rather than the (outdated)
>> sourceforge page (https://sourceforge.net/projects/re2c/files/).
>
>
> The problem with that is that the re2c.org site does not provide
> pre-built Windows binaries, and building it for Windows is
> non-trivial. EPICS supports building on Windows with Visual Studio.
> But the re2c docs say that only cygwin or mingw are supported. That
> means EPICS Windows users would need 2 compilers. Not only that, but
> it requires the "configure" utility, which means it needs not only
> another compiler, but another shell and Linux-like utilities.
I was not fully aware of these difficulties. I have added a link as you
suggested with an extra note about Windows binaries.
> A zip file with a single pre-built executable is much simpler. Note
> that this is what Andrew Johnson has done for Gnumake
> (https://epics.anl.gov/download/tools/make-4.1-win64.zip), and it is
> very convenient.
Can you or Andrew comment on how you created this binary version of GNU
make? Perhaps we can do something similar for more recent versions of
re2c, too.
> Note that if one Googles "re2c Windows" the first hit is this page:
>
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/re2c.htm
>
>
> That is version 0.9.4, and does not work with the sequencer. This is
> probably what Vishnu found and used. I had to search to find the
> site with pre-built 0.13.5, which is why I suggested putting a link
> to it in the seq docs.
I see, thanks for the additional details.
Cheers
Ben
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