[OpenAFS-devel] Windows build problems

[Eric Lorenzo]

You could get it to stop trying to run flex by 'touch'ing the file 
generated from et_lex.lex.l (et_lex.lex_nt.c) so that nmake doesn't try 
to build it.  That won't really work, though, because there is (as of 
1.0.2) an error in the .l file that you're going to need to fix.  
Specifically, the line reading:

[\t\n ]        ;

needs to be replaced with:

[\t\n\r ]        ;

If you don't do this, then you're going to run into other errors down 
the road, as the build attempts to process various error table files 
that contain carriage returns.  The alternative to fixing the lexer is 
to write a script that finds the various error table files and removes 
the carriage returns.  Neither solution is really a big deal, but since 
I recall there being other problems with the lexer/parser .c files 
included in the distribution, and needing to rebuild those, I'd 
recommend going ahead and installing flex & bison.

Eric

Nuno Miguel Neves wrote:

> I've tried the first patch against VC5, and it worked. Now I have a problem, that the
> compile stops because it can't find flex. I haven't done any
> change to et_lex.lex.l, but it still asks. Is there any option I am overlooking?