Re: [Chicken-users] chicken & MinGW - path issue and work-around

[Claude Marinier]

On Wed, 12 Jul 2011, John Cowan wrote:
> Claude Marinier scripsit:
> > $ make PLATFORM=mingw-msys PREFIX=/usr/local
>
> Well, you are not supposed to specify a non-existent directory as the
> PREFIX.  Naturally things go wrong after that.  Creating the directory
> is not really a work-around, it's a necessity.

MinGW is a minimal GNU build environment for MS Windows. MSYS is a 
Unix-like environment for MinGW; it provides a Bourne compatible shell and 
the standard collection of Unix programs.

In this environment, things like "/usr/local" work normally (from a Unix 
point of view). Most of the build process worked flawlessly using Unix 
style commands and paths.

MinGW and MSYS translate things in the background. The one error appears 
to be caused by a failure to use this translation process. When chicken- 
install tried to access the library directory, instead of going through 
this translation

  /usr/local/lib/chicken/6  ->  C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\local\lib\chicken\6

it tried to access this

  /usr/local/lib/chicken/6

which Windows interpreted as

  C:\usr\local\lib\chicken\6

This is why the work-around works.

--
Claude Marinier