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 (mbuilov@yandex.ru)

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-4.9-x64.exe - sed 4.9 built for Windows10 x64 (sha1sum: 51f8d34533bbc8f5ac6cdc422c8a3911039be81c)
• sed-4.9-x86.exe - sed 4.9 built for Windows10 x86 (sha1sum: ecf1bbc23264ebb19ea71332c5fa0f90e9f23465)
• sed-4.9-xp.exe - sed 4.9 built for windowsXP x86 (does not support .UTF-8 locale) (sha1sum: 6b2f68bdb53b59f090e9bfc1c97df219f5622e55)

Instructions how to create the build patch

• sed-4.9-build-patch-howto.txt

Instructions how to apply build patch to compile sed using native tools only

• sed-4.9-build.txt

Prepared build patches

For x64/Windows10/VS22:

• sed-4.9-build-VS22-x64.patch

For x86/Windows10/VS22

• sed-4.9-build-VS22-x86.patch

For x86/WindowsXP/VS9

• sed-4.9-build-VS9-x86.patch