Re: [Chicken-users] Error compiling on OSX

[felix winkelmann]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 7:38 AM, James Long <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I just downloaded Chicken and am trying to compile it on OSX 10.6.  I
> am getting an error.
>
> % make PLATFORM=macosx PREFIX=/opt/local
> make -f ./Makefile.macosx CONFIG= allgcc -no-cpp-precomp
> -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H
> -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -c apply-hack.x86.S -o apply-hack.x86.o
> apply-hack.x86.S:35:suffix or operands invalid for `call'
> make[1]: *** [apply-hack.x86.o] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
> I looked at apply-hack.x86.S but I don't know assembly.  What is the
> problem?  I'm also curious why it doesn't use autoconf, but that's
> probably a philosophical discussion I'm not sure I want to start!

Is that a x86-64 machine? If yes, try

  make PLATFORM=macosx PREFIX=/opt/local ARCH=x86-64


cheers,
felix