How to build a Front application under Windows?
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Front tools, and more specifically the build process, has been designed
to run on unix platforms. However, you can now (since release 1.0) also
build Front applications on Windows platforms.
To be able to do this, you need MinGW. It can be downloaded from www.mingw.org,
but we provide a more extensive version under mingw.tar.gz that you
need to download from the Front home page.

Our MinGW version comes with MSYS, which is a convenient build environment.

After unpacking, you need to go to msys/postinstall and run pi.bat.
MinGW is located in msys/mingw.

Once you have installed both MinGW and MSYS, you need to add the following to 
your .profile file. An example can be found in msys/home/lex/.profile.

  export uname=`uname -s`
  export  FRONTROOT=<drive>:/<Front-root-dir>
  export _FRONTROOT=/<drive>/<Front-root-dir>
  export PATH=$FRONTROOT/bin/$UNAME:$PATH
  export PATH=<mingw-dir>/bin:$PATH
  export BISON_SIMPLE=<drive>:/<mingw-dir>/share/bison.simple

You are done!

You can test your Front installation by building one of the Front examples:

- start msys, this gives a shell.
- cd $FRONTROOT/examples/doggy/Demo
- make

Now you should have Demo/MINGW32/Demo.exe, which is a small example built
with Front and doggy.

A more complex example is an ANSI C front-end, that you can find in
$FRONTROOT/examples/yacc/cfront.