Error from gawk about backslash line ending when running configure script

Question

I am getting an error when compiling sqlcipher. I'm unable to run ./configure

Could someone help fix the error?

gawk: /mkopcodeh.awk:101: backslash not last character on line.

Answer 1

If anyone else runs into this: the awk error seems to be caused by different line endings. If you check out the sources on Windows, take care to not have the line endings changed to Windows CR/LF. Instead, stick to LF (Unix/Mac format) only. You can also change the encoding of the offending file with any decent editor later on (I just did with Notepad++ using the menu item Edit->EOL conversion).