Re: [Chicken-users] CMake/MinGW build 325 is using wrong (Unix) filename separator

[felix winkelmann]

On 7/14/06, Ian Oversby <address@hidden> wrote:
> As can be seen from the text below, chicken is using Unix-style forward
> slashes to separate directories within filenames when it should be using
> backslashes.  This is causing errors when executing windows commands such as
> copy.  Changing CHICKEN_HOME to c:/chicken-new does not work either as copy
> still fails with all forward slashes which is a surprise to me - I thought
> Windows could use either forward or backward slashes for filenames.

A possibly stupid question: when using mingw32, one uses the normal
Windows shell, right? In that case the proper pathname directory
separator should be "\". Here is another patch that fixes a bug which
resulted in "/" separators on mingw32:

(library.scm)

2831,2834c2831
<     (if (or (eq? 'msdos st)
<        (and (eq? 'windows st)
<             (let ([bp (build-platform)])
<               (not (or (eq? 'cygwin bp) (eq? 'mingw32 bp))) ) ) )
---
>     (if (and (eq? 'windows st) (not (eq? (build-platform) 'cygwin)))


cheers,
felix