Re: [Chicken-users] Support for Microsoft Visual C++ compiler

[Felix]

From: Leonardo Valeri Manera <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Support for Microsoft Visual C++ compiler
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:23:01 +0200

> On 9 August 2010 05:58, Semih Cemiloglu <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Felix,
>>
>> I take this as you didn't refuse MSVC in principle. It was build/link 
>> problems which caused the situation.
>> Hopefully, once my knowledge about Chicken's internals increase, I will do 
>> something about it.
>>
>> As far as I know, there is no Scheme system that can interact with MS' .NET 
>> platform except this one:
>> http://ironscheme.codeplex.com/
>> Maybe Chicken will extend its reach to this realm.
>>
>> Can "Makefile.msvc" from 3.4.0 be used as a starting point for 4.5.X?
> 
> One of the problems you'll face - and one the reasons maintaining that
> file was such a pain - is the tool shadowing.
> 
> If your msvc makefile requires GNU tools from GnuWin32, they're
> probably going to come from a /bin with all of sorts (possibly all)
> GnuWin32 project binaries, some of which will shadow the MSVC tools
> (link, for example). Make can be called with full path, but if you use
> any other gnu tools (eg, sed) you're going to face many spurious bug
> reports.
> 

Yep, that's another problem. Therefore it might be advisable to use a
GUI-based solution/project setup. Integrating the "chicken" executable
is another interesting problem (this is possible in DevStudio, but I 
never got it to work properly - I'm not very good with this, though).


cheers,
felix