Re: [Chicken-users] Problems building on Cygwin64

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 04:49:18PM +0100, Colin Coates wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to build "chicken-4.8.0.6" on Cygwin64 (CYGWIN_NT-6.1 ccoates
> 1.7.29(0.272/5/3) 2014-04-07 13:46 x86_64 Cygwin
> ), running under Windows 7.

Hi Colin,

Cygwin 64 is currently not supported.  It has already been reported
that the regular cygwin build rules aren't sufficient for building
on Cygwin64.

None of the core developers of CHICKEN have a Windows machine, we
all rely on using virtual machines for testing.  On modern.ie, there
are several free (as in beer) virtual machines available for testing,
but none of them are 64-bit builds of Windows, AFAICT.

So this probably means we won't be seeing support for Cygwin64 in the
near future, unless someone is willing to create a patch and maintain
this platform.

Cheers,
Peter
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