Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
felix winkelmann wrote:
Here a patch for parameters.scm:
79,80c79,80
< (define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries
'("cygchicken-0"))
< (define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries
'("libchicken-0"))
---
(define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("cygchicken"))
(define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("libchicken"))
I've pulled this and the other stuff from Darcs. I've built with
CMake using Cygwin, and the resulting filenames are called
"libchicken". Probably for the excellent reason that I force that
name on all platforms. :-) Is "cyg" instead of "lib" some kind of
common Cygwin convention I'm unaware of, with tools automatically
performing it or some such. Otherwise, the name "cygchicken" strikes
me as an incorrect convention. It assumes that Cygwin should be
treated differently than the rest of the universe as far as
nomenclature. I can imagine historical motives, but are there any
currently valid technical motives? There are now 2 ways to build on
Cygwin and I don't want to special-case the CMake code unless there's
a good reason.
If "cygchicken" is expunged, I assume changes to the ./configure build
will be necessary.
The Cygwin CMake build of csi, does "csi -R srfi-1" just fine. So it
seems that either cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries is not being
utilized, or that something somewhere is happy enough to use / convert
to "lib" as the prefix.
I do not know who should take responsibility for DLL Hell. I think most
Windows developers deal with this by being careful to keep their own
"known good" DLLs in their own application directories. Renaming
libraries isn't typically the Windows way, but then, Cygwin isn't
Windows. Since my motive was just to ensure the Cygwin CMake build
works, and it appears to do so, perhaps it's best to let sleeping dogs
lie. At least until a Cygwin culturalist is on hand to make a decision
and do the work for Cygwin.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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