Re: [Chicken-users] Understanding Chicken 5 build scripts.

2018-09-12 Thread Thomas Chust
On 12 Sep 2018 19:28:25 +0200 Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote: > [...] > since I learned how CHICKEN 5's chicken-install creates platform specific > build scripts, I wonder: why? > [...] Hello, it seems to me this approach could come in handy when you want to execute build steps on different

[Chicken-users] Understanding Chicken 5 build scripts.

2018-09-12 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi, since I learned how CHICKEN 5's chicken-install creates platform specific build scripts, I wonder: why? This looks to me like asking for trouble. (Incompatible interpreters, quotation issues etc.) Intuitively I'd rather chosen build upon the PLT make macro and scsh-process and avoid

[Chicken-users] Chicken on Windows 10 - Was: [ANN] CHICKEN 5.0.0 release candidate 2 available

2018-09-12 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
Hi all, who is running chicken on Windows 10 here? How do you manage? I'm not sold to msys; I just tried first time and failed miserably. Any idea how to do a better setup (for chicken 5 release candidates) welcome. Maybe we can fix the support for msys2 nevertheless; So far I found two

Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] CHICKEN 5.0.0 release candidate 2 available

2018-09-12 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 02:30:12PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote: If you can, please let us know the following information about the environment on which you test the RC: Operating system: MINGW64_NT-10.0 Hardware platform: x86-64 C Compiler: gcc.exe (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project) 8.2.0 Installation