modified using the <code>awk.exe</code> utility. awk was chosen since
it is a very small download (compared with Perl or WSH/VB) and
accomplishes the task of modifying configuration files upon
- installation. Brian Kernighan's
- <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/"
- >http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/</a>
- site has a compiled native Win32 binary,
- <a href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe"
- >http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/btl.mirror/awk95.exe</a> which
- you must save with the name <code>awk.exe</code> (rather than
- <code>awk95.exe</code>).</p>
+ installation. The GNU <code>awk.exe</code> binary for Windows can be
+ downloaded and extracted from the zip archive available
+ <a href="https://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gawk.htm">here</a>
+ and then placed in some %PATH% directory on the build system.
<note>If awk.exe is not found, Makefile.win's install target
will not perform substitutions in the installed .conf files.