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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