Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism

[John Cowan]

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> You have a point here. Let me propose a compromise: detecting Windows
> is easy and bullet-proof. 

Just make sure that your Windows detection does not misdetect Cygwin,
which is not Windows at all for Chicken purposes.  Since you can't count
on uname in a pure MinGW world, the best thing is probably to invoke "gcc
-dumpmachine" and test the output with "findstring"; that will give you
a result that is as reliable as gcc.  Cygwin isn't a cross-compilation
host normally, so no issues there.

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