[Mingw-users] garnix (and Bison/Flex)

[Tom M. <mes...@ci...>]

I've been trying to compile garnix (a program to communicate
with Garmin GPS) and I'm pretty sure I need Cygwin, but
I'd just thought I'd check.  After fighting through some other
issues with the makefile, I discover that terminos.h is
included in one of the routines.  I gather that it is a standard
UNIX C header, but not part of standard C, and is unsupported
in MSVCRT.DLL, but supported in CYGWIN.DLL.  (The
inclusion of CYGWIN.DLL with the Windows binary distribution
no doubt should have been a warning.)

I was hoping to tweak the output a little, but I think I'll give up
if Cygwin is necessary.

The makefile also used Bison/Flex.  I got them from the
SourceForge GnuWin32 site and I installed them in
MinGW\bin (and they apparently worked) but I wanted to
be sure
1) that I didn't miss them somewhere in a MinGW/MSYS
DTK and I have the right ones
2) that it's safe to put them in the MinGW directory
3) that they're useful things to have for other configure/make
scripts.