Re: [Chicken-users] Revised Chapter 1 (reminder)

[Ashley Bone]

John Cowan wrote:
> Ashley Bone scripsit:
>
> > The mingw and mingw-msys builds are pretty much the same.  Both give
> > you a chicken built against the mingw headers and import libraries.
> > The only difference is the environment where you actually run make.
> > Makefile.mingw is can be used in cmd.exe with the version of make
> > that comes with mingw.  Makefile.mingw-msys requires the msys shell
> > since it uses unix command (cp, rm, etc).  The end product is the
> > same.
>
> So in that case what use is the mingw-msys build?
>
> I had thought that the result of the mingw-msys build was code parts of
> which (chicken-setup, chicken-bug, or whatever) could only be used if
> msys was present at run time.  If that's not the case, it seems pointless
> to maintain both builds, since anyone with or without msys can use the
> mingw build.
The only advantage I can see is that if you use msys you don't have to
fiddle with the windows command shell.  I'm not sure Makefile.mingw
will work in msys because some of the unix utilities like mkdir are
actually built-in commands in cmd.exe so they are treated a little
differently in the plain mingw build.

ashley