Re: [Chicken-users] chicken & MinGW - path issue and work-around

[Claude Marinier]

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Felix wrote:
> > In this environment, things like "/usr/local" work normally (from a
> > Unix point of view). Most of the build process worked flawlessly using
> > Unix style commands and paths.
> >
> > MinGW and MSYS translate things in the background. The one error
> > appears to be caused by a failure to use this translation
> > process. When chicken- install tried to access the library directory,
> > instead of going through this translation
> >
> >   /usr/local/lib/chicken/6  ->  C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\lib\chicken\6
> >
> > it tried to access this
> >
> >   /usr/local/lib/chicken/6
> >
> > which Windows interpreted as
> >
> >   C:\usr\local\lib\chicken\6
> >
> > This is why the work-around works.
>
> The translation only takes place through the MSYS shell, file-system 
> operations inside chicken, which end up in win32 operating-system 
> functions are not translated. So the PREFIX given at build-time must be 
> a valid Windows path.

Well, I completely misunderstood the comment from John Cowan.

So chicken is a hybrid. Interesting that everything else works as expected 
from inside MSYS/MinGW.

Rebuilt with a Windows path as PREFIX and chicken-install works without 
complaining.

Installed the tk egg but the simple hello program cannot find wish.

I will have to spend more time on this at home.

Thanks.

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