Re: [Chicken-users] CMake chicken-setup fails on MinGW and MSVC

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Graham Fawcett wrote:
> On 8/10/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> > felix winkelmann wrote:
> > > If you run "chicken-setup -v opengl", do you get any more
> > > informative output?
> >
> > E:\devel\msys>chicken-setup -v opengl
> >
> > The extension opengl does not exist.
> > Do you want to download it ? (yes/no/abort) [yes]
> > downloading catalog ...
> > downloading catalog from www.call-with-current-continuation.org ...
> > GET /eggs\repository HTTP/1.0
>
> There's your culprit -- the back-slash after eggs: it should be
> /eggs/repository.

The Chicken 2.41 tarball built on VS71 with nmake -f makefile.vc fails 
in the same way.  This is not a CMake-specific problem.  Rather, it's 
either a general problem with eggs on MSVC, which are making an 
inappropriate use of a Windows style pathname.  My suspicion falls on 
_make-pathname in utils.scm, but if there's a platform-specific 
behavior, it's not clear to me.  I need to start learning about better 
tools for perusing Scheme code than just visual inspection.  The Scheme 
equivalent of a VC++ class browser, really.  Suggestions welcome, 
although I suppose I'll RTFM about Quack.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every