Re: Chicken-users Digest, Vol 225, Issue 9

2021-08-22 Thread George Oliver
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 1:05 AM Mark Fisher wrote: > > I've made some partial progress. > I installed mingw64-gcc and make into windows with chocolatey in a powershell > instead of with MSYS2, which I think may be closer to what you have setup > George? [] > George, what version of gcc did

Re: Chicken-users Digest, Vol 225, Issue 9

2021-08-21 Thread George Oliver
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 9:27 AM Mark Fisher wrote: > I was doing the compilation in a MINGW64 window, not a MSYS window, which is > what I think you were referring to? > I can't compile it in a normal windows shell, as it would need MINGW64 paths > setup for compiler etc. IIRC, I compiled in

Re: Installing Chicken 5.2.0 on Windows - chicken-install -update-db hanging

2021-08-21 Thread George Oliver
Hi Mark, I installed Chicken successfully on Windows not too long ago, but unfortunately I've since switched my setup and I don't know what your issue might be. However looking at the wiki instructions I do remember that I didn't install Chicken 'in' msys, if that makes sense, but from a 'normal'

Re: Noob needs current tutorial please

2021-01-09 Thread George Oliver
On Sat, Jan 9, 2021 at 6:51 PM Duke Normandin wrote: > > Any recent tutorials for Chicken out there? TIA .. hi Duke, unfortunately that example you linked is using version 4 Chicken (note the version in the header of the file). Importing packages changed in Chicken 5. I recommend this page for a

Re: csi on Windows, Emacs and srfi 18

2020-07-05 Thread George Oliver
Hello Kristian and thanks for looking into this. On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 12:51 AM Kristian Lein-Mathisen wrote: > The sys##flush-output here is what you're looking for I think. It's problably > not being called due to tty-input? returning #f. But it might work to > redefine it to our needs: I

csi on Windows, Emacs and srfi 18

2020-07-03 Thread George Oliver
hello, I'm a new Chicken user and new to Scheme in general, and I'm working through an issue with csi and srfi 18 in Emacs on Windows 10 (though the same problem seems to exist with csi in the native terminal). Basically Windows doesn't properly flush output from a non-primordial thread. An