Re: [Chicken-users] Building Chicken with Open Watcom on Windows

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Bob McIsaac has tried to use the Open Watcom C compiler
> to build Chicken, but there are a couple of build/link problems.
>
> Is someone interested in helping with this, or has anybody tried this
> already?
> Watcom would make a splendid alternative on Windows, since it's fast,
> free and easy
> to use.
>  
I am only interested in helping with CMake-based builds.  CMake does not 
produce "native" Watcom build files.  I don't know anything about Watcom 
really; I don't know if it has "native" build files.  If it more 
typically uses a standard Unix Makefile, or a Windows NMake file, then 
that's easy enough.  If he wants to talk to the CMake guys about what's 
needed for "native" Watcom support, I can work with him on that.  I'm a 
founding member of the CMake-Promote list, 
http://cmake.org/HTML/MailingLists.html , so that is clearly my agenda.  
If that is too much work for him, and "native" Watcom build files are 
what he wants, I'm afraid I can't help.  I don't see anything "splendid" 
about Yet Another Compiler on Windows that builds everything differently 
than what the others already do, especially when MinGW doesn't get 
enough support as it is.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
"We live in a world of very bright people building
crappy software with total shit for tools and process."
                               - Ed McKenzie