Re: [Chicken-users] minGW and chicken

[Thomas Chust]

Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> Clifford M STEIN wrote:
>
> > MinGW:
> > When I just run the regular configure script in $CHICKEN_ROOT using the
> > MSys/MinGW package, everything seems to proceed smoothly until the
> > compiler hits 'posix.c'.  Then I get some errors:
> >
> > errors building 'posix.c'
> > No:   sys/wait.h
> >       sys/utsname.h
> >       pwd.h
> >       sys/mman.h
> > followed by a long list of errors and warnings...
> >
> > Does anyone have any comments/criticisms/insults? :-)

I tried to build CHICKEN for Mingw32 myself and ran into the same 
problems. But without posix support, I have little use for the software 
anyway, so I decided to run it on Cygwin.

It should be possible however to manually modify the Makefile to exclude 
the posix unit or to include Sergey's posixwin unit instead -- then 
everything should be compilable under Mingw32.

> AFAIK, posix is not available under Cygwin (until we add Sergey's posixwin,
> of course). So it should be somehow handled by the build stuff.

Of course posix support _is_ available under Cygwin but not under 
Mingw32 -- that's what Cygwin is all about, a posix emulation layer for 
Windows.

> [...]

cu,
Thomas