Hi:
Yes, I know about the vctoolkit but it has a lot of baggage which prevents install on win98.
I am thinking that Scheme distributions should not depend upon some proprietary, free-for-download compiler which is not maintained and may disappear tomorrow. Instead, a "reference implementation" compiler should be bundled. Makefiles for other compilers would only be provided as incidentals.
Bundling MSYS with Scheme would make installation simpler and more reliable for both Linux and Win32.
-Bob-
---------------------------------- Newcombe, Chris wrote:
Did you know that you can get the Microsoft command-line compiler for free too?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/
But sorry, I don't have a project file for Gambit.
regards,
Chris
-----Original Message----- From: gambit-list-bounces@iro.umontreal.ca [mailto:gambit-list-bounces@iro.umontreal.ca] On Behalf Of Bob McIsaac Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:25 AM Cc: Gambit-list@iro.umontreal.ca Subject: [gambit-list] Installing Gambit on Win32
Hi Schemers:
I would like to use Scheme with FFI in my work on embedded systems. Gambit is appealing because it specifically mentions serial ports and the code distribution is cleanly organized.
It installs easily on Linux but not on win98 which is my main target. There are options for various compilers in /misc. I don't have the MKS toolkit so I tried the IDE builds for Watcom and VC++ 4. Neither worked since they look for files gsi.c and _back.c which don't exist. I also got compile failures on MSYS/MinGW (but not sure it is installed correctly).
I suspect these IDE projects may have worked at some time for a particular release but have not been kept current. This is a general problem for open-source, cross-platform projects where the project manager may not have the resources to recheck the legacy mail-ins from contributors.
I would like to use one of these win32 compilers:-
- OpenWatcom
- Borland C++ (the free one)
- BloodShed Dev-Cpp
If someone could provide a project file or simple Makefile, I would be delighted and eternally grateful.
regards, -Bob-
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert Einstein
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