[Ecls-list] Latest changes, 5/10/2009

[Kamil Shakirov]

Hi Juan,

I have just successfully rebuilt the latest ECL from HEAD. I had to
set ECL_UNICODE=1 as it is still not hardcoded in msvc/Makefile.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
<juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> * Windows:
>
>  - The latest version of Visual Studio introduced a number of automatically
>   generated files (*.implib, *.manifest, *.expdef) which are not used at
>   all by ECL, but which were also not deleted, causing the temporary
>   directory to be filled with garbage.
>
>  - FASLs created by COMPILE and LOAD in the directory for temporary files are
>   now properly deleted before exiting ECL.
>
>  - ECL now embeds the manifest file in the generated executables and shared
>   libraries.
>
> The first problem was the cause that ECL's automated tests failed
> systematically during the last few days.
>
> Note that the changes involve the use of new tools (mt.exe to embed
> the manifest files) and new compiler and linker flags
> (/incremental:no, etc, etc). I would be very grateful if people using
> Windows compilers other than Visual Studio 2008 Express could build
> and test the latest CVS version.
>
> After this I will produce a new release, 9.10.1, leaving the
> integration of the latest garbage collector for either 9.10.2 or
> later.
>
> Juanjo
>
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