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> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users > >
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