gaogushenling / sed-windows

Instructions for building sed.exe as a native windows application

sed-windows

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 ([e-mail])

Fixed bugs:

• wrong directory of input file in in-place editing mode ('-i' switch) (sed: cannot rename ./sed8JEw8l: Improper link)
• sources were fixed for correct processing of text files with Windows line endings (if Sed is built under CYGWIN)
• fixed support of UTF-8 locale (e.g. "Russian_Russia.UTF-8", available starting with Windows 7)
• fixed interaction with standard Windows console in UTF-8 code page (set by chcp 65001)

Added features:

• native Sed is capable for resolving wildcards in file arguments
• native Sed takes locale settings from environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or LANG
• new switch '-C' or '--ignore-locale' - forces Sed to use the standard "C" locale; 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)
• new switch '--locale' - to explicitly specify locale to use (and ignore environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG)

Pre-built executables:

• sed-4.8-x64.exe - sed 4.8 built for windows7 x64
• sed-4.8-x86.exe - sed 4.8 built for windows7 x86
• sed-4.8-xp.exe - sed 4.8 built for windowsXP x86 (does not support .UTF-8 locale)

Instructions how to create the build patch

• sed-4.8-build-patch-howto.txt

Prepared build patches

For x64/Windows7/VS19:

• sed-4.8-build-VS19-x64.patch - patch for building Sed as a native Windows application
• sed-4.8-build-VS19-x64.txt - instructions how to apply the patch to compile Sed using native tools only

For x86/WindowsXP/VS9

• sed-4.8-build-VS9-x86.patch - patch for building Sed as a native Windows application
• sed-4.8-build-VS9-x86.txt - instructions how to apply the patch to compile Sed using native tools only