On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Matt Welland <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ok, no takers on my lame attempt at a financial bribe for making the next > chicken-iup so I took a stab at it myself. I've made pretty good progress, > no doubt thanks to all the great work done by the Chicken devs, so far > chicken 4.8.0.5 and iup have compiled and seem to run fine. I'm stuck at > getting the canvas-draw egg installed. Does the error below mean anything > to anyone? Thanks. > > Note: one thing I did different is apply a patch to ffcall that claims to > fix the trampoline conflict with windows executable protection. ffcall > compiled fine and I doubt it is related to this issue but I thought I'd > mention it. > > I think the 'bribe' did not have anything to do with it. Some of us will gladly improve Chicken without any financial reward - but having a 'bounty' for open issues doesn't seem like a bad idea. Heck, I'd do it in exchange for booze! :) I think the issue is that Chicken for the moment does not seem to enjoy much popularity on Windows. Having an installer could help mitigate some of that, but I am not sure it's the only requirement. Perhaps being able to compile with Microsoft's C compile would be better to ensure compatibility with existing libraries? I took a stab at it some time ago and found the build system to be a major pain, so I dropped the project. That said, do you mind if I ask you what is it that you are working on which requires Windows? :) -- Stephen
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