[Chicken-users] cygchicken

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> Here a patch for parameters.scm:
>
> 79,80c79,80
> < (define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries 
> '("cygchicken-0"))
> < (define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries 
> '("libchicken-0"))
> ---
> > (define-constant cygwin-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("cygchicken"))
> > (define-constant mingw-default-dynamic-load-libraries '("libchicken"))

I've pulled this and the other stuff from Darcs.  I've built with CMake 
using Cygwin, and the resulting filenames are called "libchicken".  
Probably for the excellent reason that I force that name on all 
platforms.  :-)  Is "cyg" instead of "lib" some kind of common Cygwin 
convention I'm unaware of, with tools automatically performing it or 
some such.  Otherwise, the name "cygchicken" strikes me as an incorrect 
convention.  It assumes that Cygwin should be treated differently than 
the rest of the universe as far as nomenclature.  I can imagine 
historical motives, but are there any currently valid technical 
motives?  There are now 2 ways to build on Cygwin and I don't want to 
special-case the CMake code unless there's a good reason.

If "cygchicken" is expunged, I assume changes to the ./configure build 
will be necessary.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every