Thanks Kristian,
problem solved:
Operating system: MINGW64_NT-10.0
Hardware platform: x86-64
C Compiler: gcc.exe (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project) 8.2.0
Installation works?: yes
Tests work?: yes
Installation of eggs works?: yes
Surprisingly the pathname issue went away. I guess this is already
Hi Jorg,
If I'm not mistaken, the Readme mentions says that you have to specify a
PREFIX for Windows builds. I'm guilty os trying the same "shortcut". And
obs: use forward slashes and include the drive letter and colon!
I don't know what's happing with the absolute-pathname trouble - I never
ran
Hi Kristian,
I don't have the Windows machine close. I'm not perfectly sure, but I
should not have specify a PREFIX at all. My intention was first and
foremost to test that a default installation done by a windows novice using
hints from the wiki works.
Surprisingly this went well up to the
Hi Joerg,
I was trying C5rc1 on win10 i few weeks ago and had to do some tweaking to
get it working og msys2 (which was surprisingly comfortable to use).
I also had a problem with chicken-install not downloading anything at
first. The symptom became clearer when I did chicken-install -update-db.
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