Instructions for building Gnu Sed as a native windows application

All patches under the same license as sources of Gnu Sed: GPLv3 or later

Author of the patches: Michael M. Builov ([email protected])

• wrong directory of input file in in-place editing mode ('-i' switch) (sed: cannot rename ./sed8JEw8l: Improper link)
• new switch '-C' or '--ignore-locale' - forces Sed to use the standard "C" locale instead of the system one; this switch is most usable in binary mode, to avoid possible interpretation of input data as multi-byte encoded strings (depending on the system locale)
• sources were fixed for correct processing of text files with Windows line endings if sed is built under CYGWIN

• sed-4.7.exe - sed 4.7 built for windowsXP x86
• sed-4.7-x64.exe - sed 4.7 built for windows7 x64

• sed-4.7-build-patch-howto.txt

For x64/Windows7/VS17:

• sed-4.7-build-VS17-x64.txt - instructions how to apply the patch to compile sed using native tools only
• sed-4.7-build-VS17-x64.patch

For x86/WindowsXP/VS9

• sed-4.7-build-VS9-x86.txt - instructions how to apply the patch to compile sed using native tools only
• sed-4.7-build-VS9-x86.patch