Re: [Chicken-users] Win32 maintainer needed

[Bob McIsaac]

Sergey Khorev wrote:

> I'd like to (excluding CMake stuff), but I'm very confused by your
> words about lots of work :)
> Support for Windows looks mature enough to not require daily hacking.
> Can you please explain what are those big problems?
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> Also what will be modus operandi? E.g. shall maintainer just fish out
> Windows-specific tasks from the maillist or you just have got lots of these?
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The Watcom compiler is probably moot to those not stuck with windows98.
However, it's advantages are worth considering: 1. works on all windows
2. has an IDE  3. simple install  4. mature but still being improved. The
Chicken header file needs to be modified where it says "ifdef _MSC_VER"
also check for "__WATCOMC__".  Seems easy enough.

Windows C compilers are more alike than different so it is possible to
create an abstraction which works for them all.  Since Chicken is a
program for writing programs, it could also output a Makefile for one's
favourite compiler.   If Cmake already does that, and outputs a VC or 
Borland
Makefile, then adding Watcom to the options won't be difficult.

IMO, maintaining a universal build tool that works for both windows and unix
is too complicated given the broken-minded idioms found on the windows
platform.    Mingw and Cygwin only extend this complexity. So it is better
to have a separate windows build system.

regards,
-BobMc-