I'd love to bring the chicken-iup installer up to date but I don't have the time to do it on my own. If anyone has the bandwidth and interest to help please let me know. I think the installer is far and above the easiest way to get going on Windows.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:06 PM, Oleg Kolosov <bazur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 08 Jul 2016, at 00:48, C K Kashyap <ckkash...@gmail.com> 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 > > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > > 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 > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users >
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