Re: [Chicken-users] Building on Windows XP

[Felix]

From: Sayth Renshaw <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Building on Windows XP
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:02:32 +1100

> Hi
> 
> I am having a little diffiiculty building chicken on windows XP SP3.
> 
> Been following the directions from here
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/compiling-chicken-on-windows-xp-with-mingw .
> 
> I notice a couple of things, the article refers to chicken's bin directoy,
> however the chicken 4.6.0 and 4.6.3 source I have downloaded does not have a
> bin directory, I have two folders manual & tests.
> 
> After installing MIngw I ran the code
> 
> 
> C:\>mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/chicken
> mingw32-make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
> 
> But I cannot seem to get chicken to build even though there are the
> makefiles in my chicken directory and mingw and c:\chicken is in my path.

You have to cd into the source directory. So, assuming you have extracted
the sources into "c:\tmp\chicken-4.6.3", do

cd c:\tmp\chicken-4.6.3
mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/chicken
mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/chicken install

After the last command, "c:\chicken" should (among other stuff)
contain a "bin" directory. You can add this to your PATH and
everything should work from there on.

Happy new year!


cheers,
felix