Re: [Chicken-users] Building Chicken for Windows

[felix winkelmann]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:45:50 +0300, Sergey Khorev
<address@hidden> wrote:
> 1) I'm trying to build Chicken with MinGW and got a lot of errors
> about unresolved references. Although when I "./configure
> --disable-shared", all goes OK.  Is this Chicken problem or the
> problem with my setup of MinGW+MSYS+msysDTK? I.e. does anyone tried to
> build Chicken using MinGW?

Sorry, I only used cygwin so far. But note that I'm nearly ready
to submit a batch-file for building Chicken with the free
visual C++ toolkit.

> 
> 2) MSVC-build of Chicken uses "static single-threaded" C runtime. It
> means that every .exe and .dll contains its own C runtime. Isn't it
> too expensive? Why not use dll runtime (msvcrt.dll)?

I didn't know that. :-) 
I'll check this out.


cheers,
felix