[DGD] DGD For MSys, mark 2

[Felix A. Croes]

Jared Maddox <absinthdraco at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]
> Are you sure that LIBS=-ldl is correct for Windows? I haven't tried
> your latest commit yet, so I can't say for certain myself.

It is a sensible default, later changed for the WIN32 platform in
the same way it is changed for FREEBSD and SOLARIS.  Your removal would
break compilation on most other platforms.


>[...]
> > You are right, it would be good to have a brief comment about the location
> > in the Makefile.
> >
>
> Done (well, in my non-current copy), though it would be good to get
> some editing on the actual message. It's wordy, and I worry about the
> tone.

All that is really needed is a brief comment to explain that OS is already
set to Windows_NT on the MSys platform at that point, and that the value
it gets later is not helpful.


>[...]
> > A related issue that you may also want to tackle: a.exe is a poor name
> > for the executable on Windows, and a.out is gradually becoming a poor
> > name on unix (few remember or care that it's the default linker output).
> > It would be a good idea to change the default binary to dgd on unix, and
> > dgd.exe on Windows.
> >
>
> Done, though for a few minutes I had it saved as dgd.out (oops).

I believe that the usual way of handling it is to have an EXE macro, set
to .exe on Windows and empty on other platforms.

Regards,
Felix Croes