Hi Matt, I can volunteer some cycles - I really would like to be able to use chicken on windows. Regards, Kashyap
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Matt Welland <mattrwell...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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