problems building kfw 2.6.5

[Jeffrey Altman]

David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Hi.  Having trouble trying to build the old kfw 2.6.5, and running into 
> a few problems.  (I need to build against the older version since I need 
> to build for VC6.)
VC6 built applications can load DLLs produced with VS7 or VS8. 

>
> First, several of the awk steps appear to be dying, throwing up a dialog 
> box saying "The NTVDM CPU has encountered an illegal instruction".  (The 
> awk I'm using is from cygwin; appears to be gawk v3.1.6-1.)  If I click 
> the "close" button on the dialogs, the build then continues on ...
NTVDM is the 16-bit DOS compatibility environment.  Be sure to use a 
32-bit version of
gawk.
>
> Anyone have any idea what these problems might be and/or workarounds? 
> Is it even still possible to build kfw2.6.5 against vc6 these days?
>
2.6.5 was built using VC .NET 2003. 




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