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B.3.1.1 Installing a Prepared Distribution for MS-Windows Systems
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The only supported binary distribution for MS-Windows systems is that
provided by Eli Zaretskii's "ezwinports"
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/) project.  Install the
compiled 'gawk' from there.  Note that to run that port, you need to
have the 'libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll' file installed on your system.  This file
is part of the GCC distribution, and should reside either in the same
directory where you install 'gawk.exe' or somewhere on your system's
'Path'.  You can download this file from the MinGW site
(https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/releases); look under the "MinGW.org
Compiler Collection (GCC)" for the 'LibGCC-1.DLL' download.