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

[Michele La Monaca]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

Incidentally a good reason not to rely on gcc to detect the platform.
Btw, I might be (remotely) interested in that. Can you (or anyone)
confirm that someone is actively working on that? Is there any "prior
art"? Thanks.

Regards,
mikele