Re: [Chicken-users] CMake testing

[Graham Fawcett]

On 10/21/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> >Testing the built binaries: csi and csc worked fine. Chicken_setup
> >worked, but this is MSVC-land, and the lack of gzip et. al. means that
> >chicken_setup usually fails to build anything. (These GNU-toolchain
> >dependencies are something I would *love* to see fixed for the MSVC
> >platform, if I had my two cents, or enough time to tackle it!).
> >
> Do you mean a gzip.exe or a gzip library?  The former is available with
> a bit of hunting around, for instance http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
> The latter, I'm fuzzy about.

More the gzip library. Specifically. that it would be convenient to
specify the toolchain required for cross-platform eggs; and provide
some kind of package that provides those tools, either as linked
libraries or a set of command-line utilities.

To be fair, MSYS and Cygwin both ought to have the tools required. But
certainly the standard MSVC environment does not. I don't believe that
Chicken *must* provide these tools for the developer; but consistency
across platforms would strengthen the value of the Chicken-eggs
system; and making life easier for developers (and users) of Chicken
would be a good thing.

I'll try running vcvars32.bat next time I'm at the office (where my
CMake installation is). Thanks.

Graham