[CMake] Re: [Chicken-users] Re: Cygwin via CMake: it works!

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Cowan wrote: Brandon J. Van Every scripsit: Why does libchicken-static.a require renaming? What evidence do you have for this? Because if you do "csc -static" or "csc -static-libs", and you haven't renamed, you get an error. More fundamentally, Cygwin ld expects -lfoo in a static build to look in /usr/lib for libfoo.a, not libfoo-static.a. Ok, I've accepted that MSVC is the odd man out.  I'm using postfixes like libchickens.lib and libchickend.lib on MSVC, as that's the way people typically do things.  I don't know if my postfixes obey good conventions; that information is difficult to Google up.  Anyways, Unix-y compilers are now expected to fend for themselves as far as keeping their static vs. dynamic nomenclatures straight.  So it seems they do the right thing, i.e. libchicken.a. Well, I suppose the argument is whether further testing shows that it breaks something. But that would require further testing, and your initial method does get us farther along. I will CMakeify it. Thanks. As far as I'm concerned, it gets us over the hump between "unusable" and "usable". I modified your solution.  I install cygchicken-0.dll and libchicken-0.dll.a, then I make a symlink for libchicken.dll.a.  I can do "csi -R srfi-1" no problem now.  It's in Darcs; please test. Cheers, Brandon Van Every

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