Hi Akim, Welcome to the challenges in the no-man's-land between GNU land and windows. ;) I really have no clue about travis, but below rather windows related things.
On Sat, 11 Jan 2020 16:20:38 +0100, Akim Demaille wrote: > I would like to run tests on a Windows machine, which is now possible with > Travis. However I face a number of problems > > - I don't know where to find gnu m4 http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/m4.htm (1.4.14). Not sure if this version works despite the warnings on the bottom of the travis log. > - I install doxygen and flex but don't see them in the path LEX=win_flex. http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/flex.htm might be an alternative to choco's winflexbison (which is a nice windows port of bison and flex, bypassing fork and m4, in particular, which do not exist as such on windows); its exe's are called win_flex.exe and win_bison.exe. doxygen I did not check. > - the compiler is GCC, I would have preferred MS's compiler Here I cannot help right now. > I would very much like some help, if someone knows how to do it. Available > currently in this branch (https://github.com/akimd/bison/tree/CI-windows), > whose build on Travis is here: https://travis- > ci.org/akimd/bison/jobs/635634715. > > Cheers! BTW: Which shell is used? Shipped with the git package? You might bump into the perl-is-missing issue, later on. Regards from the dark side, :) J.
