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Re: [Chicken-hackers] bootstrapping tarball


From: Mario Domenech Goulart
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] bootstrapping tarball
Date: 28 Dec 2007 17:53:02 -0200
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Hi Felix,

On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:16:58 +0100 "felix winkelmann" <address@hidden> wrote:

> The svn repo now contains a bootstrapping tarball containing the
> .c sources required for building chicken. So if you want to build from
> svn, entering
> 
> make PLATFORM=... bootstrap
> 
> will untar the sources, touch *.c, build a static chicken and then
> touch *.scm and build everything once more. This takes some
> time, but removes the requirement of a pre-installed chicken to
> build it straight out of the svn repo.

Excelent!  Very good idea.

Is cross-compiling supported by the bootstrap thing?  I mean, when
using PLATFORM=cross-linux-mingw the target platform for the bootstrap
compiler should be Linux, and the binaries generated by the bootstrap
compiler should be for Windows, right?

Best wishes,
Mario




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