Re: [Chicken-users] mingw_libdir bug

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/25/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> I'm a little confused.  A distaste for autotools I can wholly understand
> and sympathize with.  But how then are you using the tools?  Just in the
> simplest way?  Or did the configuration script work get done a long time
> ago, and you've forgotten, or the person who did them has moved on?  I'm
> just trying to understand if I dig into autotools myself, what's a
> rational way to proceed.

Originally the autotools integration is by Doug Quale, with additions
by various people. I just learned enough to maintain the scripts
(badly). I despise the whole stuff, but admittedly it works quite ok.

If I were to start again, I'd not use it. I think that's the rational way to
proceed.

> MinGW, although not the essence of convenience, is not terribly
> difficult to set up.  Certainly, no more difficult than setting up
> Chicken. :-)  Do you personally do any of the other Windows
> configurations, i.e. Cygwin and MSVC, or is someone else in charge of that?
>

I do a bit of MSVC testing, but only the absolute minimum. I plan to
get rid of my last Windows installation as soon as possible.
BTW, IMO why not use the free Windows tools? You can download
the Core SDK and command-line tools from Microsoft (yes, it's a bit
of an ordeal) and I must say that the microsoft compiler, linker and
other tools work fine.
There is a vctk-install.txt file in the Chicken distro that explains how
to get and set up the whole mess, many thanks to Andre van Tonder
for trying this, BTW.


cheers,
felix