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

[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. I realised I wasn't using an absolute path for PREFIX when invoking make. Doing something like make PLATFORM=mingw-msys PREFIX=C:/c5/ solved the issue, maybe you've run into the same problem?

I never tried to change the defaults, so this may be completely unrelated.

K. 

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018, 16:15 Jörg F. Wittenberger <address@hidden> wrote:

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 issues on Windows 10 + msys2 + mingw-w64:

1. chicken-install does not pick up the contents of setup.defaults by
itself.

   Workaround: chicken-install -defaults
/usr/local/share/chicken/setup.defaults

   -- which is saying: give the defaults from the installation on the
command line again.
   -- This does the download and generates the build scripts (*.build.bat)

2. Using "start" to open a window running cmd.exe I found that I can not
call chicken-do using the full path. As it is in the PATH variable I tried
to copy the invocation line with only the path leading to chicken-do
removed.

   This leads to:
   /usr/local/bin/csc -host -D compiling-extension -J -s -setup-mode -I
C:\msys64\home\... ... ....so
   creating subprocess failed

Best

/Jörg


On Sep 12 2018, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:

>On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 02:30:12PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
>> If you can, please let us know the following information about the
>> environment on which you test the RC:
>
>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?: no
>
>Installation of eggs fails like this (for all eggs; immediately):
>
>$ chicken-install.exe pastiche
>
>Error: extension or version not found: "pastiche"


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