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make, sed, awk, and cygwin

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:07 pm
by Luke
I am vaguely familiar with all of these pieces of software, and when I say vaguely familiar, that means I've read their names on this board here and there. Now, I'm trying to write modules to plug in to a piece of proprietary ecommerce software, and the software maker just released a beta version of I guess what you would call a build system for modules. It's kind of like a framework, but not really. Anyway, in the readme file, it gives these requirements:

Requirements
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a) Installed, licensed copy MIVA Script Compiler (have this)
b) Unix or Cygwin environment, with bash shell (don't have this... yet)
c) GNU Make, sed and awk available in the path ( :( ... now I'm scared)

I only have a windows box at the moment, as my laptop has been converted back to windows until I can get it to dual-boot linux and windows (and until I have the time to get a linux book and learn it properly... I just don't have the time for trial and error and I'd like to have a social life outside of devnet and computers). So, I'm going to attempt to run all this software on my windows box. I'd just like to start this thread to gather as much information as possible about make, sed, awk, and cygwin and as a basis for my likely multitude of questions surrounding them. Any information you have to start me off with would be great. I'll be back shortly with more questions. Thanks :)

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:16 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Install Cygwin. You'll get what you need ;)

EDIT | Sorry for the vague response but the default cygwin install has all the basic tools like that except for maybe 'make'. You can customize what is installed easily by running setup.exe as many times as you want and changing the packages (make will definitely be an option).