Re: [Chicken-users] Friendlier Chicken for Win32

[Shawn Rutledge]

On Dec 20, 2007 6:17 AM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Dec 20, 2007 1:08 AM, Shawn Rutledge <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > It would also be nice to have a binary distribution like this which
> > works with the MSVC compiler.  But that would require writing an
> > nmake-compatible makefile.
> >
>
> But why would you need a makefile, if you already have the binary 
> distribution?

If chicken has been compiled with the MS compiler, then csc should
know to use the ms compiler rather than gcc when compiling Scheme
programs.  Or, say you want to compile Chicken yourself, but you
haven't got mingw.  And to generate the alternative binary version of
Chicken which has been compiled with the MS compiler, you need a
makefile or a vcproj file to do that.

Aren't there some incompatibilities?  I never tried to link a program
compiled with one compiler with an object or a lib compiled with the
other.  But maybe that's possible.  Then csc would just have to be
told which compiler to use, or discover it at runtime.