Re: [Chicken-users] build on Windows with cygwin

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 9/17/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Shawn Rutledge scripsit:
>
> > With cygwin, it helps if I add the flag -mno-cygwin, like this:
> >
> > C_COMPILER_OPTIONS = -fno-strict-aliasing -mno-cygwin 
> > -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H
>
> Well, -mno-cygwin means you are building using the mingw version of gcc,
> and the result is not a Cygwin program at all.  So that solves the
> problem by defining it out of existence.

That link says it can build against either cygwin or mingw.  If I do
not use -mno-cygwin, it complains about not finding direct.h.

So for the kind of successful testing that has been going on with
Chicken, you use the separate mingw package from their page, rather
than cygwin?