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:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /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
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