Re: [Chicken-users] sqlite3 egg on cygwin

[Thomas Chust]

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, AshishShrestha wrote:

> [...]
> The sqlite3 egg is hardcoded to rename the library .so instead of .dll 
> so it fails to install. Hope someone can fix it.
> [...]

Hello,

I wonder why this is a problem on Windows. At least on Unices CHICKEN 
seems to load every piece of compiled code from .so files regardless of 
the specific operating system's idea what the file extension for a shared 
library should be. For example on MacOS X the dynamic libraries are 
normally called .dylib, but CHICKEN uses .so for its compiled code and is 
happy with that.

Is it impossible to load code from anything not called .dll on Windows?!?

Anyway, if this is really a problem, I can try to fix it in the next few 
days. I just cannot test it, because I have no Windows machine available 
at the moment.

cu,
Thomas