[Chicken-users] 2.207 tarball doesn't build on MinGW or VC++

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Felix, thanks for the new tarball.  I've tried it out on several 
permutations of MinGW, VC++, ./configure, and cmake, using clean source 
trees in all cases.  The summary is, neither compiler builds correctly.

I notice that the ChangeLog only goes through Sept. 24th.  Perhaps it is 
not a priority for a tarball.  However, if ChangeLogs are generated by a 
script, then perhaps it is an error, so I mention it.

I notice that README.darcs is not present in the tarball.  Is that 
because it's being revised?  If it's to keep people from getting 
confused, then I think it would be better to include it.  For instance, 
the main reason I need a newer tarball is to bootstrap from darcs.

In my VC++ full retail environment, vcbuild.bat has many type errors in 
pip.h.  This is related somehow to WS2tcpip.h.

In my MinGW environment, ./configure  still does the following odd path:
checking for 
d:/lang/MinGW/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.4/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe/libws2_32.a... 
no
As a directory, ld.exe is weird.  Previously I've reported this as 
likely a sed problem, but I didn't provide a patch.
It probably causes problems later in the build.
The build dies in posix.c with many errors; looks like it's not building 
posixwin.c as it should.

I notice that CMakeLists.txt is not present in the tarball.  I've tried 
adding it from the latest darcs and running cmake as per below.

In my MinGW environment, when I do 'cmake -G "Unix Makefiles"', 
makefiles are generated without error. However, 'make' dies looking for 
-llibchicken.  It seems the dependency to build libchicken is broken.  I 
can issue 'make chicken_lib', and this looks like it may almost be 
working, but then it dies.  'nologo' could be some kind of a sed error; 
maybe it's cmake's fault.
gcc.exe: d:/app/msys/1.0/nologo: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: /implib:libchicken.lib: No such file or directory
gcc.exe: d:/app/msys/1.0/dll: No such file or directory
make[3]: *** [libchicken_lib.dll] Error 1

In my VC++ retail environment, If I do 'cmake -G "NMake Makefiles"',, 
makefiles are generated without error.  However, 'nmake' dies looking 
for libchicken.lib.  As before, the dependency to build libchicken is 
broken.  I can issue 'make chicken_lib', but this dies with many 
undefined types in pip.h.  It seems to be related to WS2tcpip.h.

I have no solutions at this time.  Must go gather signatures; shoulda 
done so already.  Consider all of this a field report and food for thought.

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every