Oops, you shouldn't need to install cmake and global. I copy/pasted that from my Emacs setup readme.
-Dan On 2016-07-09 5:36 PM, Dan Leslie wrote: > > 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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