Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> This looks very useful indeed.  Is the documentation for CMake better
> nowadays?  I seem to recall that was the main reason we dropped CMake,
> because nobody besides one person understood it well enough to maintain
> the build.

That was part of it.  In addition, CMake was unstable -- we were
constantly changing our build process to cope with new and incompatible
versions of CMake (also a problem with autotools) -- and it wasn't truly
able to cope with our meta-circular build process, and that had to be
kludged around.  IMO, depending on GNU make only is the Right Thing for
us: it is rock solid, and if we have to deal with each port separately
to some degree, so what?  There are not hundreds of targets these days
that are of practical interest.

What do you think of my idea of dropping even GNU make for MSVC support
and just compiling everything with a batch file?  One thing I note is
that MSVC's C compiler is C89 only; do we have dependencies on post-C89
syntax either in Chicken itself (which presumably could be worked around)
or in the generated code?

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          some years ago