Re: Winflex

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 21:19, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>
>
> Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>
>> Using
>> http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/misc/winflex/
>>
>> on a 64-bit windows, but in 32-bit mode (this certainly used to work),
>> trying to build HEAD.
>>
>> first of all, it returns error code 128 when running "flex -V", which
>> means our script claims it doesn't work. Commenting out that check, it
>> crashes along the line of:
>> Running flex on src\backend\utils\misc\guc-file.l
>>     14 [main] flex 2372 _cygtls::handle_exceptions: Exception:
>> STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
>>
>> Sometimes it doesn't crash, but do this instead:
>> Running flex on src\backend\parser\scan.l
>> c:\gnuwin32\bin\m4.exe:stdin:16769: ERROR: end of file in string
>> Project : error PRJ0002 : Error result 128 returned from
>> 'C:\WINDOWS\SysWow64\cm
>> d.exe'.
>>
>>
>> If I run it a couple of times, it eventually completes. But then bombs
>> out because the generated files aren't complete.
>>
>> Anybody else seen this? Am I forgetting something typical?
>>
>
> Hmm.
>
> I don't have a 64bit Windows box, so I doubt I can test this. I can set up a
> 64bit VM but I'd need to get my hands on a 64bit version of Windows.

I use Amazon EC2 for this. Trivial to get up, and almost free when you
use it for very short periods of time.

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