Re: [Chicken-users] Bootstrapping VC++

[felix winkelmann]

On 11/1/05, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> How do I bootstrap using VC++?  I've built the Chicken 2.0 tarball using
> the full retail version of VC++ 7.1.  The toolkit version failed for
> some reason.  I'm not using Chicken 2.2 because it doesn't build with
> VC++.  Updates of the tarballs so that it builds with VC++ would be welcome.
>

A new snapshot will be available very soon (tomorrow, hopefully).
My apologies for the delay.

> I've got the darcs repository, but README.darcs says nothing about how
> one would bootstrap with VC++.

Yes, that README assumes you are using a UNIX-like environment.

> Also I am unclear on how vcbuild.bat and
> makefile.vc are generated.  Are they just done by manual labor?

Indeed.


cheers,
felix