Re: [Chicken-users] build on Windows with cygwin

[Shawn Rutledge]

On 9/19/07, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Not necessarily.  Programs built on Cygwin integrate correctly with the
> rest of Cygwin, which is a Good Thing when living mostly in a Cygwin
> environment, as I do when forced to live with Windows for one reason
> or another.
>
> For example, ^D on Cygwin as on Unix signals EOF on terminal input,
> but this does not happen when you are running a non-Cygwin program
> (like the java interpreter) from Cygwin.  ^Z followed by newline, the
> regular Windows console EOF, does not work either, because the ^Z is
> either ignored or causes the non-Cygwin process to stop.

Point taken.  So I can see having all 3 makefiles - mingw if that's
what you have, cygwin if you want to use it in a Unix-like way, and
cygwin-mingw if you only have Cygwin but would like to build a binary
that can be distributed without cygwin1.dll.  But the last one is
probably least important.