Re: [Chicken-users] Cygwin installation report

[felix winkelmann]

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 2:32 AM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thomas Chust scripsit:
>
>> based on the existing documentation of the issue and the manifest in
>> the previous message I have created a patch against the CHICKEN 4.4.0
>> sources that adds resource files to be compiled and linked into
>> chicken-install and chicken-uninstall to embed manifests in those
>> executables when compiling for a Windows host.
>
> Excellent!  There still remains the issue that when running on Windows,
> csc should do this embedding for any user-written program that contains
> the magic strings in its name ("instal", "update", "setup").  Ideally gcc
> should do this, but until it does, csc seems the right place.
>

Actually quite a good idea. I'll check this out.


cheers,
felix