Re: [Chicken-hackers] Windows binary limited to C:\Program Files

[felix winkelmann]

On 11/5/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Unless some new mechanism was added for MSVC, the Windows binary is
> hardwired for C:\Program Files.  That's not so great, although it does
> sidestep the issue of "real" installation.  The .zip binary contains no
> documentation of this, nor any of the usual READMEs or
> INSTALL-CMake.txt, for that matter.  The method of installation should
> at least be documented.

Just for the record: the READMEs (including the note about the installation
path) are buried in Chicken\share\chicken\doc\README. But this is next
to useless, of course, as it really should be in the toplevel.

Anyway, hardwired paths are bad, the CMake build is the only method
that works on Windows and I don't have the time or energy to start
doing it right (i.e. runtime path configuration and a proper installer).


cheers,
felix

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