Re: [Chicken-users] Support for Microsoft Visual C++ compiler

[Felix]

From: Semih Cemiloglu <address@hidden>
Subject: RE: [Chicken-users] Support for Microsoft Visual C++ compiler
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 13:58:30 +1000

> Hi Felix,

Hello, Semih!

> 
> I take this as you didn't refuse MSVC in principle. It was build/link 
> problems which caused the situation.

That's right. And not having an active maintainer.

> Hopefully, once my knowledge about Chicken's internals increase, I will do 
> something about it.

Looking forward to it.

> 
> As far as I know, there is no Scheme system that can interact with MS' .NET 
> platform except this one:
> http://ironscheme.codeplex.com/
> Maybe Chicken will extend its reach to this realm.

I don't know much about .NET, but I wouldn't have a clue how to use C# features
from C code. Since everything goes through the CLR, regardless of language, 
perhaps
there are ways to do this?

> 
> Can "Makefile.msvc" from 3.4.0 be used as a starting point for 4.5.X?

It might be a starting point for getting the correct command-line
options, but for figuring out the dependencies, one of the 4.5.x
Makefiles might be the better choice.


cheers,
felix