Firstly,
> Hope this helps!
This is all incredibly helpful thanks!
> > This is exactly what I was expecting too, although the "mingw-msys"
> > build I would expect to be from a "MSYS2 MinGW 64bit" shell to be
> > specific (as opposed to "MSYS2 MSYS" shell) when running make.
>
> I don't
On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 01:38:42PM +0100, Mark Fisher wrote:
> I always ran clean/confclean between any builds to regenerate the
> chicken-config file and would
> watch for its generation when I built it, so I don't think it was that.
> I'm pretty sure I never mixed and matched PLATFORM= values
>
> Those assumptions are all correct. Looking at your other mail, I think I
> understand what might be going wrong here.
>
> My guess is that you either tried to use PLATFORM=mingw from an msys
> shell (i.e., msys2 bash), which would explain the error about XCOPY,
> or you used PLATFORM=... with
On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 08:34:47PM +0100, Mark Fisher wrote:
> I've finally been able to get chicken installed and working, but I had to
> pretend to be cygwin.
> I think there's errors in the mingw-msys Makefile, or my assumptions about
> it are wrong.
> I would expect:
> - "Makefile.mingw" to
