[Bug 745804] flex fails to build on Windows

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745804

--- Comment #5 from Sebastian Dröge (slomo) <slomo at coaxion.net> ---
(In reply to Philippe Renon from comment #4)
> Ok, building flex the msys way is not very interesting as the resulting
> binaries will be dependent on msys-1.0.dll (which provides thin POSIX layer,
> including fork()...). Learning...

I think that's acceptable. It's only used as a build tool, not distributed in
the binaries.

(In reply to Philippe Renon from comment #3)
> Sebastian,
> When building flex via cerbero, the first error I get is about a missing
> regex.h.
> Apparently you already addressed that issue. Could you share that fix?

There's a mingw-regex recipe in recipes/build-tools. That provides it, but you
have to patch that into the flex build.

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