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

[Michele La Monaca]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
> From: Michele La Monaca <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] platform auto-detection mechanism
> Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 21:57:39 +0100
>
>> 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.
>
> It's no black magic,

Damn! I was hoping for some of that!! :-(

> just a bunch of missing/renamed header-files and
> quasi-POSIX functions not available or available under a different
> name on Windows. Oh, and the apply-hack assembly thingy, which is 2 or 3
> instructions using _asm inside "C_apply". I can provide this, if you
> want.

Well, yes, if you can provide the assembly hack that would be a good
incentive. Anyway, I can't promise any real commitment any time soon
on that.

Regards,
mikele