Re: [Chicken-users] chicken 4 on Windows

[Jordan Cooper]

Thank you. I'd been doing that before, but it was failing (turns out
due to a couple GNU utils I didn't have which were needed to
bootstrap. And somehow my chicken-defaults.h had gotten garbage in it,
but a fresh checkout fixed that).

Knowing that it was possible gave me the motivation I needed to figure
things out.

Cheers!

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Leonardo Valeri Manera
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I've built it with a bare MinGW ... TDM version 4.3.3, so its safe to
> assume it'll work the vanila 3.x stable: just start cmd.exe, cd to
> where you unpacked the tarball, add the mingw /bin to the path (with
> "set PATH=%PATH%;C:\MinGW\bin" or whatnot) and run:
>
> mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=C:/chicken (or whatever you want
> the install path to be) (note the forward-slash on the prefix)
>
> when its done install it with
>
> mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=<YOUR_PREFIX> install
>
> Oh, you probably wont be able to build it using 3.4, so you'll either
> want to bootstrap (with "bootstrap", see the README) or build 3.5 as a
> stepping-stone.
>
> Cheers,
> Leo
>
>
>
> 2009/4/16 Jordan Cooper <address@hidden>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'd like to get chicken working on Windows for those occasions when I
>> have to use it -- without having to use Cygwin, if possible. But so
>> far that's the only way I've been able to build it; my attempts with
>> mingw and/or msys haven't been successful.
>>
>> Currently I've been using a precompiled binary I found of chicken 3.4,
>> but using older versions of stuff is bad for my OCD.
>>
>> So, my questions:
>>
>> 1) Has anyone been able to build chicken 4 on Windows XP without Cygwin?
>>
>> 2) If so, are there any more detailed instructions/troubleshooting
>> around than the readme?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Newbie to Scheme
>>
>>
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