Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] run test suite on mingw

[Felix]

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] run test suite on mingw
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:12:18 -0400

> Hi Felix,
> 
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:07:22 -0400 (EDT) Felix <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> From: Felix <address@hidden>
>> Subject: [PATCH] run test suite on mingw
>> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:40:57 -0400 (EDT)
>>
>>> The attached patch adds a batch file for running most of the
>>> tests also in a mingw Windows environment (without msys).
>>
>> Please try this patch instead, it fixes the test-script invocation
>> on Windows when running "make ... check".
> 
> Could you build chicken using mingw only (no msys)?  I tried that
> yesterday but got some problems (I'll try again tonight).
> 
> I'm asking just in case it's something stupid I'm doing.

I seem to have been sucessful building it, but my Windows setup is a
bit thrown together (who's isn't?). It is possible that the build
still fails with a pure mingw32 setup. It would be help if you could
tell me what problems you got and how you tried to build it.


cheers,
felix