[Chicken-users] Re: cygchicken

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> felix winkelmann wrote:
> > Here a patch for parameters.scm:
> >
> > 79,80c79,80
> > < (define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries 
> > '("cygchicken-0"))
> > < (define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries 
> > '("libchicken-0"))
> > ---
> > > (define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("cygchicken"))
> > > (define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("libchicken"))
>
> I've pulled this and the other stuff from Darcs.  I've built with 
> CMake using Cygwin, and the resulting filenames are called 
> "libchicken".  Probably for the excellent reason that I force that 
> name on all platforms.  :-)  Is "cyg" instead of "lib" some kind of 
> common Cygwin convention I'm unaware of, with tools automatically 
> performing it or some such.  Otherwise, the name "cygchicken" strikes 
> me as an incorrect convention.  It assumes that Cygwin should be 
> treated differently than the rest of the universe as far as 
> nomenclature.  I can imagine historical motives, but are there any 
> currently valid technical motives?  There are now 2 ways to build on 
> Cygwin and I don't want to special-case the CMake code unless there's 
> a good reason.
>
> If "cygchicken" is expunged, I assume changes to the ./configure build 
> will be necessary.

The Cygwin CMake build of csi, does "csi -R srfi-1" just fine.  So it 
seems that either cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries is not being 
utilized, or that something somewhere is happy enough to use / convert 
to "lib" as the prefix.

I do not know who should take responsibility for DLL Hell.  I think most 
Windows developers deal with this by being careful to keep their own 
"known good" DLLs in their own application directories.  Renaming 
libraries isn't typically the Windows way, but then, Cygwin isn't 
Windows.  Since my motive was just to ensure the Cygwin CMake build 
works, and it appears to do so, perhaps it's best to let sleeping dogs 
lie.  At least until a Cygwin culturalist is on hand to make a decision 
and do the work for Cygwin.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every