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B.3.1.5 Using gawk In The Cygwin Environment
gawk can be built and used “out of the box” under MS-Windows
if you are using the Cygwin environment.
This environment provides an excellent simulation of Unix, using the
GNU tools, such as Bash, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Make,
and other GNU programs. Compilation and installation for Cygwin is the
same as for a Unix system:
tar -xvpzf gawk-4.0.0.tar.gz cd gawk-4.0.0 ./configure make |
When compared to GNU/Linux on the same system, the ‘configure’ step on Cygwin takes considerably longer. However, it does finish, and then the ‘make’ proceeds as usual.
NOTE: The ‘|&’ operator and TCP/IP networking (see section Using
gawkfor Network Programming) are fully supported in the Cygwin environment. This is not true for any other environment on MS-Windows.