Re: [Chicken-users] posix unit on windows

[Felix Winkelmann]

Sergey Khorev wrote:
> > Absolutely! Having posix.scm under Windows would be splendid.
> > I suggest having a separate file (like we have now for the three
> > different regex-units). But if you prefer a single file, something
> > based on cond-expand is probably the way to go (for example, with
> > "-feature windows").
>
>
> posixwin.scm and the patch against makefile.vc are attached to this
> email. Again, only subset (supported by MS libc) is supported. Also
> added 'process-spawn' function to replace the fork+exec combo. Tested
> with MSVC only: for some strange reason I was not able to build
> Chicken with MinGW.
>
> A few minor tweaks are required to compile chicken-setup. The patch to
> get it working on Windows, without compatibility (!!!), is attached
> too - chicken-setup.diff.

Thanks very much, Sergey. I don't think having chicken-setup under Windows
is currently that important, unless we handle all the calls to UNIX
tools internally (decompression and un-archiving).
So I'll add winposix to the base system - perhaps I get around implementing
all the missing functionality at some stage.

Thanks again!


cheers,
felix