Re: MinGw port of gawkextlib

[Manuel Collado]

El 17/05/2022 a las 14:51, Andrew J. Schorr escribió:
> On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 03:36:59PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Why the assumption that gawkapi.h and the Gawk executable are under
> > the same PREFIX?
>
> Because that's what gawk's "make install" does.
>
> > That might be so on Unix, where installation trees
> > are standardized, but not on Windows.  gawkapi.h should be where the C
> > compiler looks for includes files, whereas the gawk executable should
> > be somewhere on PATH.

Well, binary distributions of your EzWinports almost follow the Unix 
convention of installing executables, docs and includes under the same 
tree. This is really a good thing. Several tools can work together by 
just unpacking their distributions in the same location (say --prefix).


> >  On Windows, it is customary to have many
> > different directories on PATH, and some people even go to the extreme
> > of installing every package's executables in a separate bin directory
> > that they add to PATH.

Yes. Independently developed Windows tools are usually installed in 
independent locations. But _compatible_ Windows ports of GNU software 
pieces are better installed and merged in a common install tree.

Regards.
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Manuel Collado - http://mcollado.z15.es