Re: [Chicken-users] How easy is it to use Chicken in Windows XP

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Ian Oversby wrote:
> > 6. YES Easily!!
>
> Answer == 6 --> It is relatively easy when you know how.  You need the 
> following tools:
>
> Darcs     http://abridgegame.org/darcs
> Chicken 2.3 binary (2.41 may work too??)
> Win32 binary     http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org
> Latest chicken from darcs repository     $ darcs get 
> http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken
> MinGW + MSYS     http://www.mingw.org
> CMake 2.4.3

These instructions are in INSTALL-CMake.txt, in current tarball 
distributions.

We're very near to having a unified tarball distribution that allows 
both the GNU Autoconf or the CMake build to be used.  I would say we'll 
have the capability within a week.  Then it will be up to Felix when he 
wants to make his next tarball release.

CMake is definitely what you want if you're doing MinGW.  CMake is 
working for John Cowan on Cygwin as well; he tests it regularly.  I may 
start recommending the CMake build for MSVC users.  I will already 
recommend it for Visual Studio users, if you want to see the build 
layout from within Visual Studio.  There are no .sln files in the 
standard tarball distribution; only CMake can generate them.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every