[Chicken-users] Re: integer64 fatal build error on MSYS

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Building C object CMakeFiles/libchicken-static.dir/eval.obj
> In file included from E:/devel/msys/chicken/eval.c:8:
> E:/devel/src/chicken/chicken.h:1111: error: syntax error before 
> "C_num_to_int64"
> E:/devel/src/chicken/chicken.h:1111: warning: data definition has no 
> type or storage class
> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/libchicken-static.dir/eval.obj] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/libchicken-static.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2

The problem was MinGW specific.  The VC++ and Cygwin builds didn't have 
the problem.  The fix was a trivial change to chicken.h.  I have pushed 
it to Darcs.  It was:

$ darcs diff
plink: unknown option "-O"
diff -rN old-chicken/chicken.h new-chicken/chicken.h
396c396
< #ifdef _MSC_VER
---
> #if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined (__MINGW32__)


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every