[Chicken-users] Re: CMake tarball capability

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> For the curious, the CMake build can now generate a build tree that 
> boots without Chicken.  i.e. a tarball of sorts.  After doing a CMake 
> Darcs build of Chicken (requires Chicken 2.3 or better), type "make 
> boot_cfiles" to make the tree bootable without Chicken.  I will 
> provide a better interface and actual tarballs this week.  Something 
> sane like "make dist".

It turns out there are problems.  For instance, VC++ dies due to 
problematic whitespace escapes in pathnames generated for MinGW.  I'll 
reannounce when it's better tested and ready for prime time.  That 
should be within a week though.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every