Ashley scripsit: > Actually, the problem turned out to be my misunderstanding of the > intent of the mingw-msys makefile. I assumed it was similar to > the cygwin build, but I realize now that doesn't make much sense > as mingw uses the microsoft runtime. So things like chicken-setup, > which ultimately call system(), need paths windows can understand. > I was using it as if /home referenced the root of the file system, > when in fact it sits at c:\msys\1.0\home.
Do remember though that the Windows kernel is perfectly happy with / rather than \, which makes things much simpler. CMD insists on \; I don't know about MSVC makefiles. > The easyffi egg won't build, at least with MSVC 2003, because it > contains a literal string larger than 65535 characters. Sounds like the egg should be refactored to break up the string, since consecutive strings in ISO C are implicitly concatentated anyway. -- All Gaul is divided into three parts: the part John Cowan that cooks with lard and goose fat, the part http://ccil.org/~cowan that cooks with olive oil, and the part that [EMAIL PROTECTED] cooks with butter. -- David Chessler _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
