Hello, chickeneers--
As a by-product of my recent adventure in packaging Chicken for Windows, I
discovered MSYS2.
MSYS2 is an updated version of the venerable MSYS, with 64-bit support and
an optional MinGW environment, ported from mingw-w64. It offers a large
selection of packages, uses the Pacman package manager from Arch Linux, and
has pretty good documentation.
While I can't claim extensive experience with this project, it gave me a
very good impression. It seems well put-together - a bit more of a polished
and complete product than either the old MSYS or mingw-w64. The
documentation, while not very extensive, as far as I can tell is accurate,
up-to-date, and covers all the essential info you need in order to use the
system. And there seems to be a small but dedicated group of developers
working with the project.
So I think that MSYS2 may be a superior platform for developing with
Chicken on Windows, and I would encourage any of you Microsoftians to check
it out. So far I have been able to compile and install Chicken, and run
'csi' with no apparent problems in a standard Windows command shell; there
are some issues with using csc and chicken-install, but they seem to be
mostly related to problems with paths, so I imagine they can be worked out.
Let me know if you decide to try it out. There are a few simple but not
very obvious steps involved in getting to where I've gotten.
Here's the project homepage:
https://msys2.github.io/
And documentation:
http://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/wiki/Home/
--
Matt Gushee
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