Forgot to forward this to the mailing list, I'm still getting the hang of this mailing list stuff
________________________________ Srayan Jana ________________________________ From: Srayan Jana <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 10:38 AM To: Felix Winkelmann <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows So, I was able to get it working on WSL just fine, but on windows 11 specifically using MSYS2 I got this ``` sraya@Penelope MSYS /c/git-repos/chicken-core $ ./scripts/bootstrap.sh --2025-10-21 10:37:30-- https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/12/09/chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz Loaded CA certificate '/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt' Resolving code.call-cc.org (code.call-cc.org)... 78.47.93.131 Connecting to code.call-cc.org (code.call-cc.org)|78.47.93.131|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 4284693 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz’ chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz 100%[=================================================>] 4.09M 2.81MB/s in 1.5s 2025-10-21 10:37:32 (2.81 MB/s) - ‘chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz’ saved [4284693/4284693] detecting platform ... unable to figure out platform sraya@Penelope MSYS /c/git-repos/chicken-core $ ``` ________________________________ Srayan Jana ________________________________ From: Felix Winkelmann <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 1:52 AM To: Srayan Jana <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows On Mon Oct 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM CEST, Srayan Jana via Chicken-users wrote: > I've been trying to get into Chicken scheme, and I've been trying to build > 6.0/master from source, but I keep getting into weird issues with the > configure script, and I could never figure out how to setup the bootstrap > build as well. > > Are there other windows users who have built Chicken from source? I'd love > some tips! Hi! Sorry for the somehwat involved build process, this is indeed a bit clunky in the moment (and we're working on that). Bootstrapping manually is a bit of a pain, have you tried scripts/bootstrap.sh? Alternatively I can put together an inofficial distribution tarball that should make things easier, as a short term solution. cheers, felix
