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

[Michele La Monaca]

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:02 PM, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Michele La Monaca scripsit:
>
>> Incidentally a good reason not to rely on gcc to detect the platform.
>
> No autodetection will ever work with MSVC, for one might have both
> that and mingw installed in the same path.

Yes, sure. No autodetection can detect user's intentions if there are
alternatives. But I think that the specific case you raised (mingw and
MSVC both present) is easy to work out as my idea was to use the
native nmake for MSVC (even if it would mean a complete rewrite of the
build process). So make will continue to trigger mingw, while nmake
will trigger MSVC.

Regards,
Michele