Re: [Chicken-users] Updated CHICKEN packages for cygwin comming to you soon

2015-01-26 Thread Nathan Thern
Thanks for doing this, Christian. I created the original chicken packages for cygwin years ago, but rarely use it rarely interact with cygwin on a development level anymore. I use mostly linux at home now, and scheme is just an occasional hobby for me. Hopefully the community will benefit

Re: [Chicken-users] IDE for Beginners

2014-12-11 Thread Nathan Thern
On 12/4/2014 1:16 PM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: Despite being initially cryptic, I'd strongly recommend learning Emacs. It's a valuable and flexible tool that can be useful in many situations, not only for editing CHICKEN code. If you are familiar with Lisp languages (and I assume you are),

Re: [Chicken-users] Sendfile Egg and Cairo Egg Problems on Cygwin

2008-10-21 Thread Nathan Thern
Hi Yasuro, I just verified that the chicken package in the cygwin repo (of which I am the maintainer) exhibits the same behavior. I haven't had time to look into it. For me, the eggs just work. I have yet to even try to make one myself, so I don't know how far I will get when I get around to

[Chicken-users] Fwd from cygwin ML: New package: chicken-3.4.0-1

2008-10-10 Thread Nathan Thern
Hey Chicken users, Chicken is now an official cygwin package! I am the POC and maintainer for the package. Everything seems to work well, but I haven't really stressed the system yet. Comments/critiques welcome. regards, Nate T -- Forwarded message -- From: Nathan Thern [EMAIL

[Chicken-users] Intent To Package chicken for cygwin

2008-07-30 Thread Nathan Thern
Hello all - I have been building and using chicken on my cygwin system(s) since about version 2.3. From reading the users' and hackers' list archives it seems that John Cowan is the man most responsible for how cleanly chicken builds on cygwin ... thanks John! I have packaged chicken as a cygwin

Re: [Chicken-users] Minor problem with cmake-based chicken build on cygwin

2008-06-02 Thread Nathan Thern
On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 3:36 PM, felix winkelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 8:00 PM, Nathan Thern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I guess this is a bug in our build - thanks for reporting it. BTW, we don't use CMake anymore, so this has nothing to do with CMake itself

[Chicken-users] Minor problem with cmake-based chicken build on cygwin

2008-05-31 Thread Nathan Thern
Hi all- I just built chicken-3.2.0 on cygwin. The build went just fine, but the install put the runtime dlls (cygchicken-0.dll and cyguchicken-0.dll) in /usr/lib rather than /usr/bin. The installation did not work until I moved the dlls to /usr/bin. A quick inspection of the makefiles revealed