Re: windows build

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Hi Reini,

> 3. I’m in the progress to add continuous integration via travis (linux, OS X) and appveyor (Windows).
> ...
> https://github.com/rurban/clisp/commit/7b64a9b41d74460dc361e117700eee9713601ea0

Can you make the builds work on a machine that has not only MSVC but also
Cygwin installed?

I'm asking because nowadays my preferred way to produce native Windows binaries
is by using Cygwin as a development environment, see [1], as it
  - does not require to manually maintain a config.h (since it's fully
    autoconfiguring),
  - does not require the complexity in makemake.in regarding backslashes vs.
    slashes (since the build relies on GNU make, not nmake),
  - does not require to regularly update win32msvc/makefile.msvc* (the last
    update was in 2010!)

In other words, is much much simpler. But it requires Cygwin tools. Or in the
future, the Microsoft WSL [2] may be reliable enough for this task as well.

Bruno

[1] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libsigsegv.git;a=blob;f=README.windows
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about