RE: [Chicken-users] How easy is it to use Chicken in Windows XP

[Ian Oversby]

> After struggling horribly, trying (and failing) to get ECL running in 
> Windows I am really
> looking for a better experience.
>
> I tend to use "pure" Windows XP and free C/C++ tools so either GNU gcc is
> fine or MS Visual C++ 2005. Note that I don't have access to MSVC the
> commercial version. Is it possible to install and build a good working
> version of Chicken on Windows XP:
>
> 6. YES Easily!!
>
> Please let me know in detail how I go about this as I am not an expert in 
> any of the above 1-5.
>
> (prays for 6 or 7 .......)

Answer == 6 --> It is relatively easy when you know how.  You need the 
following tools:

Darcs   http://abridgegame.org/darcs
Chicken 2.3 binary (2.41 may work too??)
Win32 binary    http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org
Latest chicken from darcs repository 	$ darcs get 
http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken
MinGW + MSYS    http://www.mingw.org
CMake 2.4.3

Alternatively, I have a tarball of build 2 // 425 that was built with MinGW 
+ MSYS that you can have.  Then all you need is to untar it in a suitable 
place, set CHICKEN_HOME to point to the chicken bin directory and add the 
same directory to your path and it should work fine.

Ian