build with mingw-w64?

[liquidaty]

It would be great if this fork supported compilation with mingw-w64.

UPDATE: With some minor modifications, we've managed to compile simplegrep.exe on OSX+mingw-w64. This requires a minor change in src/util/alloc.cpp to use __mingw_aligned_malloc() instead of posix_memalign() and __mingw_aligned_free() instead of free() in aligned_free_internal.

Will you consider incorporating these changes if we create a PR? There are still other issues to resolve (such as getting it to properly use AVX2 instead of only working with SSE), but if if this fork doesn't officially support minGW, this change would at least provide a way to get an unsupported minimal working version with this toolchain, without impacting other builds

[markos]

@liquidaty hi, I would suggest you try the original project for OSX/Intel platform. While it should be easy to get vectorscan working on this platform, we don't have the hardware and don't intend to support it. However, if the PR is trivial and non-intrusive -ie it doesn't break things for other platforms and is zero/low-cost on maintainance, we would be open to merge it.

[liquidaty]

@markos thank you! I appreciate that you will consider it and will send a PR shortly

[markos]

Fixed in #121

[liquidaty]

thank you!