Compiling on Windows

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Merlyn Morgan-Graham

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Nov 7, 2011, 11:03:24 PM11/7/11
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I had a go at trying to get the UnQL makefile to work within Windows.
Thought I'd report in on my findings and share my scripts.

I got a perfectly working NMake script, but Visual Studio isn't going
to cut it. I got the lib and exes to compile though there were a ton
of compiler warnings. The tool fails two tests, then dies a horrible
death.
I think the VS C compiler is just totally outdated at this point and
isn't going to be an option. Tried in C++ mode too, but got errors
that make me pretty sure this is real C code with non-C++ features.

I used AWK from here, and threw it in the "gawk" subdirectory of the
source package: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm

I got it working in some old version of mingw32 I had installed (GCC
says 3.4.5?), though still with NMake.

42 errors from 149 tests.

If someone lets me know how to publish files on here, I can share a
zip with that work, and a text file of the test output.
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