Re: [Chicken-users] Intent To Package chicken for cygwin

[felix winkelmann]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Nathan Thern <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello all -
> I have been building and using chicken on my cygwin system(s) since
> about version 2.3. From reading the users' and hackers' list archives
> it seems that John Cowan is the man most responsible for how cleanly
> chicken builds on cygwin ... thanks John!
>
> I have packaged chicken as a cygwin binary package. Cygwin users can
> point their setup.exe to http://www.liquid.spod.org/~nthern/cygwin/ to
> get it.
>
> My intention is to submit this package to the cygwin folks, with
> myself as the primary package maintainer and POC. First, however, I
> wanted to inform this list about my plans and solicit feedback.

Very good! Thanks for taking this in your hands.

>
> Attached is a patch to Makefile.cygwin that puts the runtime libraries
> in the right place.
>

Patch applied. Note that the current trunk head doesn't build properly,
due to makefile problems.


cheers,
felix