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, 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. > > Are you referring to our build system or the MSVC tools? If the former, > I wouldn't mind answering some questions about it. I know it has some > complicated Make macrology, but it's better than spelling out each rule > in full. > 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, I can't tell!). -- Stephen
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