Re: [Chicken-users] MinGW build

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Patrick Brannan wrote:

> I'm trying to build chicken 2.2 with mingw and am having a small 
> problem. It looks like it is trying to build posix.c and is having 
> some difficulty. Should posix.c even be built on windows? Any 
> suggestions would be appreciated.

No it shouldn't be.  This is the same bug as I have been referring to in 
my post about mingw_libdir.

> Prior to this error there was an error building tcp.c.  Swapping the 
> following two lines fixed that one.
>
> // # include <winsock2.h>
> #include <ws2tcpip.h>

Hm, well at least you've found a workaround for 1 error.

> It looks like I may have a configuration variable out of wack.

The configuration is simply not working well for MinGW.  Felix has said 
he's amenable to a better system.  I'm not sure what that would mean 
exactly.  A conservative approach would be to try the latest version of 
autoconf, autotools, and company, and see if that doesn't solve 
problems.  A more bold approach would be to try some other configuration 
tool, but I don't know what's available.  I'm imagining "works with a C 
compiler" is a requirement, as opposed to, say, a Python based tool?

Cheers,
Brandon J. Van Every
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           '(Seattle Functional Programmers)))
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