[Bug 745804] New: flex fails to build on Windows

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

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

            Bug ID: 745804
           Summary: flex fails to build on Windows
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: Normal
         Component: cerbero
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: slomo at coaxion.net
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
     GNOME version: ---

This happens because
a) flex requires POSIX regex (i.e. regex.h), for that I already packaged the
mingw standalone version of it. Needs to be integrated into the recipe for
Windows but that's simple and works
b) flex uses various other POSIX API not available on Windows, like fork() and
wait(). There must be compatibility implementations available somewhere as
mingw ships flex binaries but I didn't find them yet and also not the build
steps used to build the mingw flex binaries

Must be fixed before we can do a new release.

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