Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-05 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 12:13 PM, John Cowan co...@mercury.ccil.org wrote: What do you think of my idea of dropping even GNU make for MSVC support and just compiling everything with a batch file? One thing I note is that MSVC's C compiler is C89 only; do we have dependencies on post-C89

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-04 Thread Oleg Kolosov
On 02/04/14 12:08, Peter Bex wrote: Hi Oleg, This looks very useful indeed. Is the documentation for CMake better nowadays? I seem to recall that was the main reason we dropped CMake, because nobody besides one person understood it well enough to maintain the build. I don't know how it was

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-04 Thread Oleg Kolosov
On 02/04/14 19:13, John Cowan wrote: Peter Bex scripsit: This looks very useful indeed. Is the documentation for CMake better nowadays? I seem to recall that was the main reason we dropped CMake, because nobody besides one person understood it well enough to maintain the build. That was

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-04 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: This looks very useful indeed. Is the documentation for CMake better nowadays? I seem to recall that was the main reason we dropped CMake, because nobody besides one person understood it well enough to maintain the build. That was part of it. In addition, CMake was

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-04 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 23:54:17 +0400 Oleg Kolosov bazur...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/04/14 19:13, John Cowan wrote: What do you think of my idea of dropping even GNU make for MSVC support and just compiling everything with a batch file? One thing I note is that MSVC's C compiler is C89 only; do

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com 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

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 01:58:31PM -0200, Stephen Eilert wrote: 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

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Mario Domenech Goulart
Hi, On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 13:58:31 -0200 Stephen Eilert spedr...@gmail.com wrote: 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. I don't know.

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Stephen Eilert
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Peter Bex peter@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 01:58:31PM -0200, Stephen Eilert wrote: 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,

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Peter Bex
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 04:16:01PM -0200, Stephen Eilert wrote: Oh, don't get me wrong, I have no issues with it as an user (or even doing minor changes on *nix). However, understanding and translating those rules to Microsoft's tools required more sanity than I had available (or less sanity,

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread Martin DeMello
This might be useful: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler (not used it personally, just wanted to share the link) martin On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Stephen Eilert spedr...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Matt Welland estifo...@gmail.com

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread John Cowan
Martin DeMello scripsit: This might be useful: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Windows_cross_compiler (not used it personally, just wanted to share the link) We already support that using cross-linux-mingw. -- Man has no body distinct from his soul, John Cowan for that

Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-03 Thread John Cowan
Peter Bex scripsit: Have you considered digging into CHICKEN's historical build systems? We used to have MSVC support before it fell into disrepair. I think it worked with both Autofools and CMake (certainly the latter). You might be able to resurrect some of that stuff, or at least take a

[Chicken-users] chicken-iup - progressing nicely but have problem with canvas-draw

2014-02-01 Thread Matt Welland
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