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Re: [Chicken-users] Errors building eggs in mingw/msys


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Errors building eggs in mingw/msys
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:41:20 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Ashley Bone scripsit:

> I had what seemed to be this EXACT same problem when I built chicken
> for cygwin, which I solved by copying the cygchicken dll's
> to the path containing chicken (or adding the lib directory to the
> path, not sure at this point).  I'm at a loss in this case, though I'm
> convinced it's something trivial.

All builds on Windows (cygwin, mingw, mingw/msys) have the same issue:
Windows doesn't have a separate search path for DLLs, so all DLLs have
to be on $PATH.  However, the working directory is *always* on $PATH
whether explicitly so or not.

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