I have just returned from vacation and have access to my Windows 10 machine again, and so can try out my setup.
Here's what I have done: Install 64-bit MSYS2, launch bash using the MingW64 shell: |https://msys2.github.io| Install the necessary dependencies: |pacman -Sy pacman -S mingw-w64-cross-toolchain base-devel mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake global| Build and install Chicken: |tar xf chicken-4.11.0.tar.gz; cd chicken-4.11.0 make PLATFORM=mingw-msys make PLATFORM=mingw-msys install | And now you have a Win64 build of Chicken. Note that I also install and use Emacs this way, and interface with Chicken through Geiser. -Dan On 2016-07-09 4:38 PM, Matt Gushee wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Matt Welland <mattrwell...@gmail.com > <mailto:mattrwell...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Oh, as an aside, it would be fantastic to have IUP be just as easy > to install on Linux/Unix. Sadly this is not the case. I have not > surveyed the GUI toolkit world recently. Is there a better > alternative available for Chicken now? > > > I haven't looked around *very* recently, but I've been through many > cycles of looking for better GUI toolkits. And everytime I've looked, > I seem to find the same answer: that IUP is the *only* reasonably > modern and full-featured cross-platform GUI toolkit written in plain > C. Ah well, GTK is technically written in plain C, but it has its own > complex infrastructure. Everything else is C++ - which I suppose would > not be impossible to wrap for Chicken, but nobody seems to want to do it. > > However, I think the IUP situation is getting better. I built the > latest versions of IM, CD, and IUP for Arch Linux about a month ago, > and I only had to make one minor change to one of the build scripts. > Every previous time I've built the packages, I've had to patch > Makefiles and other things. So it seems like the IUP team has finally > gotten around to addressing some of the problems people have been having. > > -- > Matt Gushee > > > > _______________________________________________ > Chicken-users mailing list > Chicken-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
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