On 2022/10/09 16:20:23 Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not completely sure if this belongs to dev@ or docs@, please advise if
> I should repost to dev@.
> 
> I'm involved in the Subversion project and in investigating our build
> scripts for Windows, I found our link to awk.exe, at
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/ was 404.
> 
> When searching for alternatives, I realized HTTPD's page for compiling on
> Windows [1] (I believe it is built from [2]) containing the same link.
> 
> Have you looked for another source for pre-built awk.exe? My best bet
> currently is gnuwin32/gawk [3], [4].
> 
> Incidentally, I realised the repository contains sources for what seems to
> be a copy of the original awk.exe, at [5]. I had to make a small adjustment
> to the build script to make it build on Visual Studio 2022:
> 
> [[[
> Index: buildwin.bat
> ===================================================================
> --- buildwin.bat        (revision 1904474)
> +++ buildwin.bat        (working copy)
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
>  rem If you delete the call to setlocal it will probably work under
> Win95/Win98 as well.
> 
>  setlocal
> -set cl=-w -Ox -QIfdiv- -nologo -link -nologo setargv.obj
> +set cl=/DHAS_ISBLANK -w -Ox -nologo -link -nologo setargv.obj
> 
>  cl maketab.c -o maketab.exe
>  maketab.exe > proctab.c
> ]]]
> 
> Kind regards,
> Daniel Sahlberg

Hi,

A kind ping on this issue.

I've copied [5] to Subversions source tree [6] and added it to our build 
scripts. We've also removed our references to the princeton.edu site from our 
documentation.

Kind regards,
Daniel


> 
> [1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/platform/win_compiling.html
> [2]
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/manual/platform/win_compiling.xml
> [3] https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm
> [4] http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/downlinks/gawk-bin-zip.php
> [5] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/win32-msi/trunk/awk

[6] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/tools/dev/awk 


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