Re: [Chicken-users] Noob question: (re)compile FFI-accessing code within REPL

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi <address@hidden> wrote:
> In that case, I have a few questions regarding your setup:
> - are you using free compiler tools or MS?

    I am using MinGW's GCC, binutils, make etc.

> - if you use free compiler tools, do you use msys, or just MinGW?

    Just MinGW.

> - what build file did you use in CMake -- msys or MinGW?

    I've chosen "MinGW Makefiles".

> - where did you install msys/MinGW? As I mentioned, I put msys in
> C:\msys\1.0, and put MinGW in C:\mingw. Is that ok?

    My installation directories too.

> - did you just install MSYS and MinGW using .exe installers? Or did you
> do the install "by hand" -- i.e. unarchiving the various tarballs on the
> MinGW downlad site? What other packages were required?

    I got the tarballs:

+ binutils
+ gcc-core
+ w32api
+ mingw32-make
+ mingw32-runtime
+ mingw32-utils

> - are you compiling and generally "doing things" from the MSYS terminal,
> or from a CMD.EXE window?

    From a CMD.EXE window.

> - when I try to compile using chicken-setup inside MSYS, I get "gcc
> could not create output file" -- or something like that (I'm at work
> now, so don't have my windows box near me).  When I run in CMD.EXE I get
> problems with untarring and unzipping the egg file. Have you seen
> similar errors? Are you aware of workarounds?

    You must grab gzip and tar for Windows. You can get them at
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/

Personally, I have a c:\devtools directory hierarchy (bin, lib,
include etc.) with lots of useful tools and libraries.

> Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated.

    Hope this helps,

--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/