* Flex-2.5.4a for Windows *
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What is it?
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Flex: fast lexical analyzer generator

Description
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Flex is a fast lexical analyser generator. It is a tool for generating
programs that perform pattern-matching on text. There are many applications
for Flex, including writing compilers in conjunction with GNU Bison. Flex
is a free implementation of the well known Lex program. It features a Lex
compatibility mode, and also provides several new features such as exclusive
start conditions.
	 
Homepage
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http://www.gnu.org/software/flex/flex.html
	 
System
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- MS-Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP with msvcrt.dll
- if msvcrt.dll is not in your Windows/System folder, get it from
  Microsoft <http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;259403">
  or by installing Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher
  <http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie>

Notes
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- Bugs and questions on this MS-Windows port: gnuwin32@users.sourceforge.net

Package Availability
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- in: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net

Sources
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- flex-2.5.4a-1-src.zip

Compilation
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The package has been compiled with GNU auto-tools, GNU make, and Mingw
(GCC for MS-Windows). Any differences from the original sources are given
in flex-2.5.4a-1-GnuWin32.diffs in flex-2.5.4a-1-src.zip. Libraries needed
for compilation can be found at the lines starting with 'LIBS = ' in the
Makefiles. Usually, these are standard libraries provided with Mingw, or
libraries from the package itself; 'gw32c' refers to the libgw32c package,
which provides MS-Windows substitutes or stubs for functions normally found in
Unix. For more information, see: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/compile.html
and http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libgw32c.htm.