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

2018-09-17 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
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

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

2018-09-17 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
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

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

2018-09-15 Thread Jörg F . Wittenberger
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

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

2018-09-14 Thread Kristian Lein-Mathisen
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.

[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