Re: [Chicken-users] cross compilation setup

[F. Wittenberger]

Am Dienstag, den 02.09.2008, 10:01 +0200 schrieb felix winkelmann:
> Hi!
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
> PATH=<yourmingwpath>:$PATH make PLATFORM=cross-linux-mingw
> PREFIX=<yourprefix> install

What is this supposed to build?  The host system, the target system or
both?

It did not work for me: looks for chicken.exe

> > !!! Use -host-extension - not -host as the wiki said.  -host is the same
> > as -H and changes the download host name!
> 
> Right, thanks for mentioning this.

I checked the current svn head.  How it the -host-extension supposed to
work?  I found:

> Now chicken-setup accepts the -host-extension and sets a parameter
> object, but does not evaluate it anywhere.  (Therefore it tries to
> compile with the target instead the host compiler.)  Around line 347 I
> changed:

> (define-macro (compile . explist)
>   `(run (csc ,@(if (host-extension) '("-host") '()) ,@explist) ) )

/Jörg