Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism

[Peter Bex]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2013 at 09:34:30PM +0100, Michele La Monaca wrote:
> Currently MinGW detection is done by exclusion. If you are Windows and
> not running in a MSYS or CYGWIN environment then I conclude that you
> are MinGW. I think this line of reasoning is correct, but if there are
> experts please chime in.

Recently someone asked about MSVC, and possibly wanted to restore
support for it.  I'd expect this to be the "typical" case, once it
works again.  Of course for now (until it works) we can get away
with the assumptions you mentioned.

Cheers,
Peter
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