Re: [Chicken-users] status of the cmake build on win32

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/18/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Warning: despite my attempts to bulletproof, the install-opengl-egg
> target doesn't work at all on MSVC, and reports success when it should
> report failure on both MSVC and MinGW.  I've filed a bug report with
> Kitware.  You are better off testing chicken-setup manually until I have
> a resolution for this.

Ok.

> I'm making it a policy from now on to extensively comment CMakeLists.txt
> in a tutorial fashion.  So, my knowledge of "what you really need to do
> with CMake" is being slowly reposited.  I got inspired today after
> someone on the CMake list said my Chicken build files were actually
> useful for understanding his own newbie problems.  He was trying to
> build assembly code with custom rules, and that's nearly the same drill
> as building Scheme code.

That would be very good, indeed. After adding a "bench" target to CMakeLists.txt
(which isn't complete, as it needs changes in cscbench.scm) I didn't find the
syntax too hard, even it is quite verbose. But one has to dig through the code
and find examples for common usage patterns.


cheers,
felix

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