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gawk on the Atari STA proper compilation of gawk sources when sizeof(int)
differs from sizeof(void *) requires an ISO C compiler. An initial
port was done with gcc. You may actually prefer executables
where ints are four bytes wide but the other variant works as well.
You may need quite a bit of memory when trying to recompile the gawk
sources, as some source files (regex.c in particular) are quite
big. If you run out of memory compiling such a file, try reducing the
optimization level for this particular file, which may help.
With a reasonable shell (bash will do), you have a pretty good chance
that the configure utility will succeed, and in particular if
you run GNU/Linux, MiNT or a similar operating system. Otherwise
sample versions of config.h and Makefile.st are given in the
atari subdirectory and can be edited and copied to the
corresponding files in the main source directory. Even if
configure produces something, it might be advisable to compare
its results with the sample versions and possibly make adjustments.
Some gawk source code fragments depend on a preprocessor define
atarist. This basically assumes the TOS environment with gcc.
Modify these sections as appropriate if they are not right for your
environment. Also see the remarks about AWKPATH and envsep in
Running gawk on the Atari ST.
As shipped, the sample config.h claims that the system
function is missing from the libraries, which is not true, and an
alternative implementation of this function is provided in
unsupported/atari/system.c.
Depending upon your particular combination of
shell and operating system, you might want to change the file to indicate
that system is available.