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

[Martin Percossi]

Alex Queiroz wrote:

> On 7/2/07, Martin Percossi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I will however, steer clear
> > of windows, at least until I'm better at scheme programming and I can do
> > better than just pepper chicken-setup.scm with (print "Got here!")
> > statements...
>     I use Chicken under Windows on a daily basis, and I am very
> satisfied. Perhaps asking questions here instead of giving up entirely
> can give better results?

In that case, I have a few questions regarding your setup:
- are you using free compiler tools or MS?
- if you use free compiler tools, do you use msys, or just MinGW?
- what build file did you use in CMake -- msys or MinGW?
- 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?
- 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?
- are you compiling and generally "doing things" from the MSYS terminal, 
or 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?

Any suggestions/help would be much appreciated.

TIA
Martin