At Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:48:57 -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > > Daishi Kato wrote: > > > > >BTW, chicken-setup requires gunzip and tar. > >What kind of tools are the people who uses chicken on win32 using? > >The gunzip binary from the GNU site works fine, but the tar binary does not. > >I don't like to install SFU since it comes with many other tools (too big). > > > > > I have been using http://www.7-zip.org successfully for tar.gz stuff. > Sometimes it chokes on .zip stuff, in which case I fall back to WinZip. > 7-Zip is a GUI driven tool, so perhaps this doesn't solve your problem. > Collections of GNU tools for Windows: > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ > http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
I tried the second one and it works fine for me. Thank you, Daishi > I cannot vouch for their quality. "Where is the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@# tool?" > is an > issue that periodically pops up. I imagine chicken-setup would force > the issue. I still haven't gotten far enough with building Chicken > reliably on Windows to move on to chicken-setup issues, but hey, > signature gathering is over so this week I can try to beat CMake into > submission. I would say that relying on shoddy / haphazard GNU tools on > Windows is not a good design. Ideally Chicken would have its own > reliable tar and gz reader libraries and not be dependent on external tools. > > > Cheers, > Brandon Van Every > "The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back." > - anonymous entrepreneur > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
