Re: [Chicken-users] CMake/MinGW build 325 is using wrong (Unix)filename separat

[Ian Oversby]

> In fact, this is a good question.  I'm not really that knowledgable about 
> MinGW but it seems that there are three shells you might want to use: 
> cygwin, mingw and the normal windows shell.  I built chicken with MSYS with 
> uses forward slashes (although it horribly [or nicely depending on your 
> point of view!] mangles the rest of the windows path, e.g. c:\chicken 
> becomes /c/chicken).  This being the case, I should presumably not apply 
> the patch and install all the extensions I want from MSYS.  I'll try that.

Hmmm, it seems that Windows slashes are the way to go.  With Unix style 
slashes I get this from MSYS:

address@hidden /c/chicken-new
$ chicken-setup.exe regex-case
 c:/chicken-new/csc -feature compiling-extension -O2 -no-trace -s 
regex-case.scm -emit-exports regex-case.exports
regex-case.c:1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position 
independent)
 copy regex-case.dll c:/chicken-new
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
"copy regex-case.dll c:/chicken-new"
1

copy isn't found by MSYS and couldn't handle the forward slash in 
c:/chicken-new correctly in any case.

In the Windows shell the following command worked a lot better after the 
patch to put Windows slashes in.  Now to see if it actually does what it 
says on the tin.

C:\chicken-new>chicken-setup -c "-lws2_32" http

Ian