Re: Installing Chicken 5.2.0 on Windows - chicken-install -update-db hanging

2021-08-22 Thread ArooBaito Art
Hey, Mark! I successfully installed Chicken on Windows off chocolatey just last week. To get around all of the requirements for the Unix programs I installed win-bash and put them on my path so it could use cp etc. like normal. For SRFI-18 specifically you do have to modify it from using the

Re: Installing Chicken 5.2.0 on Windows - chicken-install -update-db hanging

2021-08-22 Thread Mark Fisher
Thanks Peter. I messed up the threading on this conversation, and went into more details elsewhere about my adventures into getting this working, and I've tried more since. I've had no luck with the latest version (5.3.0rc2); I discovered (via strace) that the created executable is internally

Re: Installing Chicken 5.2.0 on Windows - chicken-install -update-db hanging

2021-08-22 Thread Peter Bex
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 12:14:51PM +0100, Mark Fisher wrote: > The compilation works fine, but when I run the install phase, the > "chicken-install -update-db" just hangs Hello Mark, I seem te remember something like this caused by Windows Defender (the virus scanner thing in Windows). If you

Re: Chicken-users Digest, Vol 225, Issue 9

2021-08-22 Thread George Oliver
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 1:05 AM Mark Fisher wrote: > > I've made some partial progress. > I installed mingw64-gcc and make into windows with chocolatey in a powershell > instead of with MSYS2, which I think may be closer to what you have setup > George? [] > George, what version of gcc did

Re: Chicken-users Digest, Vol 225, Issue 9

2021-08-22 Thread Mark Fisher
I've made some partial progress. I installed mingw64-gcc and make into windows with chocolatey in a powershell instead of with MSYS2, which I think may be closer to what you have setup George? I was then able to compile and install chicken. I couldn't work out how to set a PREFIX value that