Re: [Chicken-users] Sendfile Egg and Cairo Egg Problems on Cygwin

[david krentzlin]

> Hi!
> 
> I have just come to know Chicken and I have installed it on 
> the Cygwin platform (compiling it by myself). I do not know 
> the system well enough to provide any personal insight yet, 
> but I would like to report a few problems.
> 
> 1. Sendfile Egg
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> downloading sendfile.egg from 
> (www.call-with-current-continuation.org eggs/3 80)
>    gzip -d -c 
> /cygdrive/x/Tools/chicken-eggs/downloads/sendfile.egg | tar xf -
>    /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -d0 
> -O2 sendfile.scm sendfile-implementation.c
> Warning: local assignment to unused variable 
> `*sendfile:last-selected-implementation*' may be unintended
> sendfile.c:1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is 
> position independent)
> sendfile-implementation.c:1: warning: -fPIC ignored for 
> target (all code is position independent)
> sendfile.o:sendfile.c:(.text+0x2ad6): undefined reference to 
> `_madvise'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> *** Shell command terminated with exit status 1: gcc 
> sendfile.o sendfile-implementation.o -o sendfile.so -shared 
> -L/usr/local/bin  -Wl,-R/usr/local/bin -lchicken -lm
> Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
> "/usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -d0 -O2 
> sendfile.scm sendfil...
> 256

Hi, 

could you please try if current trunk works for you?
I assume you used sendfile from 3-branch?

cheers david