Re: [Chicken-users] Cygwin

[Mark Carter]

----- Original Message ----
> From: felix winkelmann <address@hidden>
> On 3/6/10, Mark Carter wrote:

> Patch is applied to "master". I'll put it into the "prerelease" branch as 
> well.

:)

> I'll install copies of "chicken-install" and "chicken-uninstall" as
> "chicken-fetch"
> and "chicken-remove", respectively, on Windows platforms.

Good idea! 


> Did the invocations of the "install" cygwin command when doing the
> "make ... install" trigger any security warnings?

I obtained "Bad file number".

> > Perform a library installation kludge:
> >   mv /usr/local/lib/libchicken* /usr/local/bin
> >   mv /usr/local/lib/libuchicken* /usr/local/bin
> > Makefile.cygwin puts them in a place where the compiler can't find them.
> 
> This should normally be done. I don't understand why you had to do this
> manually.

Maybe I should have set another flag, too. There's a lot of options to choose 
from, so it's difficult to choose the right one.

Cygwin seems to do other things a little non-standard, I think. For instance, 
it doesn't put the ncurses header files where the ncurses egg can find them - 
even though the egg installs perfectly fine on Slackware, for example.

> Excellent. Thanks again for your help.

No problemo. ;)

Mark.