On 10/21/05, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Testing the built binaries: csi and csc worked fine. Chicken_setup > >worked, but this is MSVC-land, and the lack of gzip et. al. means that > >chicken_setup usually fails to build anything. (These GNU-toolchain > >dependencies are something I would *love* to see fixed for the MSVC > >platform, if I had my two cents, or enough time to tackle it!). > > > Do you mean a gzip.exe or a gzip library? The former is available with > a bit of hunting around, for instance http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ > The latter, I'm fuzzy about.
More the gzip library. Specifically. that it would be convenient to specify the toolchain required for cross-platform eggs; and provide some kind of package that provides those tools, either as linked libraries or a set of command-line utilities. To be fair, MSYS and Cygwin both ought to have the tools required. But certainly the standard MSVC environment does not. I don't believe that Chicken *must* provide these tools for the developer; but consistency across platforms would strengthen the value of the Chicken-eggs system; and making life easier for developers (and users) of Chicken would be a good thing. I'll try running vcvars32.bat next time I'm at the office (where my CMake installation is). Thanks. Graham _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
