Re: [Chicken-users] Ann.: CHICKEN 4.0.0 released

[felix winkelmann]

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Leonardo Valeri Manera
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Anyway, Makefile.msvc grief: its using 'cat' where the CMD.EXE mingw
> makefile isnt.

Yes, that should be fixed in trunk.

>
> This is a pain because that comes in the coreutils package along with
> GNU link which causes the msvc linker to be shadowed.
>
> Subsequently it  falls on its face with a:
>
> link -nologo -dll chicken.import.o -out: chicken.import.so \
>         libchicken.lib \
>         ws2_32.lib advapi32.lib
> LINK : fatal error LNK1146: no argument specified with option '/out:'
> make[1]: *** [chicken.import.so] Error 1146
> make[1]: Leaving directory `C:/Dev/chicken-4.0.0'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>

This ain't mingw. You're using some strange mess of GNU utils.
When I say "mingw", I mean: you only have gcc, nothing else.


cheers,
felix