Re: [Chicken-users] sqlite3 egg on cygwin

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/1/06, Thomas Chust <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> just removing the -o argument in the csc statement will break the
> following install-extension statement, which relies on the output being
> called .so

In fact, install-extension handles this automatically.

>
> Before I make similar changes to my other eggs, though, I would still very
> much like to have an answer to these questions. Why does CHICKEN load from
> .so files on every system except Windows but requires .dll on Windows? In
> my opinion you should either stick to the .so extension on every platform
> or use the native extension on every platform, not mix these concepts.

Windows wants them to be named .dll, so I think we already do the latter
(use the native extension). Am I missing something?


cheers,
felix