> On 08 Jul 2016, at 00:48, C K Kashyap <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am very new to Chicken. I've been able to get started with it on my mac > using homebrew. I am not sure about how to get started on windows though. > > What's a good way to install chicken on windows? The binary installer links > shown on the web page seems dated. > > Can I build chicken using VC? > > Is this the right place to download mingw64 - > http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php/start > I could not find a download link. > > I'd appreciate your help very much. > > Regards, > Kashyap > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
Hi! The simplest way is to install pre-packaged CHICKEN, see https://wiki.call-cc.org/platforms#microsoft-windows- I guess the available binary packages are dated because in 4.10 CHICKEN changed ABI and build requires bootstrapping which is a pain and nobody bothered because Windows is not popular here. No, you can't build it using VC either. A build system requires GNU make and code has some GCC'isms and UNIX'isms. Core can be fixed with a few relatively trivial patches but supporting utilities (chicken-install and friends) can not, so you wont be able to install eggs. I had the patches in my CMake based CHICKEN fork but abandoned it due to lack of public interest. -- Regards, Oleg _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
