Re: [Chicken-users] supporting a mingw-cygwin environment

[Felix]

From: Martin DeMello <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] supporting a mingw-cygwin environment
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 00:31:29 +0530

> I tried to compile chicken 4.5.0 under a cygwin-mingw environment
> (cygwin with mingw/bin set as the first entry in $PATH) using
> 
> make PLATFORM=mingw-msys PREFIX=c:/mingw install

If this is plain mingw (no MSYS), then you should do

  make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/mingw install

> 
> It errored in the middle with
>
>[...]
>
> I gave up and installed msys and installed chicken, which then works
> fine from cygwin. If someone more experienced than me knows how to fix
> this, though, it would be worth supporting the mingw-within-cygwin use
> case - I believe it's a reasonably common setup.

You could also try doung a regular cygwin build. mingw only provides
the compiler in this setup, is that correct?


cheers,
felix