Re: [Chicken-users] Problem with chicken-install on cygwin

[Felix]

From: Luis Rosso <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Problem with chicken-install on cygwin
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:35:12 +0000

> 
> Hi
> I am a Chicken newby.
> I have installed chicken 4.6.0 on Cygwin (on Windows XP) with its default 
> PREFIX:
> 1) I first built it:make PLATFORM=cygwin
> 2) then, I installed it:make PLATFORM=cygwin install
> I am trying to install defstruct by means of chicken-install and get the 
> following error reported:Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit 
> status 256: gcc defstruct.o -o defstruct.so -shared -L"/usr/local/bin" 
> -lchicken -lm
> I have made some research by Google and the search engine of this forum 
> without success.What am I doing wrong? What should I do in order to fix this 
> issue?Full log:
> retrieving ...resolving alias `kitten-technologies' to: 
> http://chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk/henrietta.cgiconnecting to host 
> "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...requesting 
> "/henrietta.cgi?name=defstruct&mode=default" ...reading response ...HTTP/1.1 
> 200 OKDate: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:14:45 GMTServer: ApacheConnection: 
> closeTransfer-Encoding: chunkedContent-Type: text/plainreading chunks 
> ..reading files ...  ./defstruct.setup  ./defstruct.scm  ./defstruct.meta 
> defstruct located at 
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/temp7418/defstructchecking 
> platform for `defstruct' ...checking dependencies for `defstruct' ...install 
> order:("defstruct")installing defstruct: ...changing current directory to 
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/ADMINI~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/temp7418/defstruct  
> /usr/local/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e 
> "(import setup-api)" -e "(setup-error-handling)" -e 
> "(extension-name-and-version '(\"defstruct\" \"\"))" 
> /cygdrive/c/DOCUME\~1/ADMINI\~1/LOCALS\~1/Temp/temp7418/defstruct/defstruct.setup
>   /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O2 
> defstruct.scm -j defstruct
> Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit status 256: gcc 
> defstruct.o -o defstruct.so -shared -L"/usr/local/bin" -lchicken -lm 
> 

Do you get any sort of error message? It seems that gcc somehow fails
to link the code. Can you compile and link normal programs (say,
an empty program or a simple hello-world)?


cheers,
felix