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
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
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
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 1:05 AM Mark Fisher wrote:
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> 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?
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> George, what version of gcc did
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