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

[John Cowan]

Michele La Monaca scripsit:

> 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.

I think that's satisfactory.  I do like the "gcc -dumpmachine" method,
though, as it is quite general (well, assuming the native compiler is
named "gcc" everywhere, which I suppose might not be true).

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