[PATCH] Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-31 Thread felix . winkelmann
> Alright, I'm convinced. Attached is a patch to drop the damn thing. > Pushed (also to prerelease). Thanks. felix

Re: [PATCH] Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-31 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 08:10:46PM +0300, elf wrote: > I do use Windows regularly and am looking to improve chicken support for it. Hi Elf, Cool to hear. What are your thoughts on the current situation? Which flavour of Windows build should we keep and which should we drop (if any)? What about

Re: [PATCH] Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-30 Thread elf
I do use Windows regularly and am looking to improve chicken support for it. -elf On 30 August 2021 19:55:03 GMT+03:00, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: >> > * As far as I can tell, none of the CHICKEN developers use Windows >> > regularly. >> >> True. I have it running in a VM, but I

[PATCH] Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-30 Thread felix . winkelmann
> > * As far as I can tell, none of the CHICKEN developers use Windows > > regularly. > > True. I have it running in a VM, but I always start it with a lot of > trepidation and I don't fully understand the OS itself. For example, > suddenly now "make check" has started to give a "permission

[PATCH] Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-30 Thread Peter Bex
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 09:21:38PM +0200, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:09:09 +0200 felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > Using the already provided implementation is preferable, I'd say - one way > > to shift responsibility, which, in this utter mess of Windows

Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-29 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, On Fri, 27 Aug 2021 18:09:09 +0200 felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: >> My gut says we should just drop our custom version and rely on Mingw's >> dirent.h , but that is a bigger change for the RC (but we can ask people >> to test again of course) and would make supporting MSVC in the future

Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-27 Thread felix . winkelmann
> My gut says we should just drop our custom version and rely on Mingw's > dirent.h , but that is a bigger change for the RC (but we can ask people > to test again of course) and would make supporting MSVC in the future a > bit more difficult again. > Using the already provided implementation

Re: patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-27 Thread Peter Bex
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 09:29:31PM +0300, Jani Hakala wrote: > > Hi, > > This patch seems to fix the problem with chicken-install when > > chicken-install -defaults ./setup.defaults -update-db > > appears to hang when installing chicken. I've done some investigation. First off, Windows

patch for chicken on 64-bit windows (msys and mingw-w64)

2021-08-25 Thread Jani Hakala
Hi, This patch seems to fix the problem with chicken-install when chicken-install -defaults ./setup.defaults -update-db appears to hang when installing chicken. >From e0fb00c8272f538f8d468564dc7a5ff2e3f76e5f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jani Hakala Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:49:17 +0300