[Chicken-users] chicken & MinGW - path issue and work-around

[Claude Marinier]

Hi,

Wanted to see how easy it is to build on Windows. Found a problem and a work around but no solution.

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Claude Marinier

MS Windows Vista Home Basic SP2 and MS Windows 7 SP1 (both 32-bit)

MinGW 5.1.6 (many packages marked 20110530) installed fresh on 8 July 2011

$ tar zxf chicken-4.7.0.tar.gz

$ cd chicken-4.7.0

$ make PLATFORM=mingw-msys PREFIX=/usr/local

OK.

$ make PLATFORM=mingw-msys PREFIX=/usr/local install

OK except for this:

/usr/local/bin/chicken-install -update-db

Error: (directory) cannot open directory - No such file or directory: "/usr/local/lib/chicken/6"

From DOS-box (run as administrator):

mklink /d \usr \MinGW\msys\1.0

symbolic link created for \usr <<===>> \MinGW\msys\1.0

Try again.

/usr/local/bin/chicken-install -l http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi -update-db

loading import libraries ...

generating database

 srfi-69 srfi-4 srfi-18 srfi-14 setup-download tcp setup-api srfi-13 srfi-1 utils scheme posix ports

 lolevel irregex foreign files extras data-structures csi chicken

  copy "C:\Users\Claude\AppData\Local\Temp\tempe46c\modules.db" "\usr\local\lib\chicken\6\modules.db"

        1 file(s) copied.

OK. Test it.

/usr/local/bin/chicken-install -l http://code.call-cc.org/cgi-bin/henrietta.cgi numbers

$ csi

CHICKEN

(c)2008-2011 The Chicken Team

(c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann

Version 4.7.0

windows-mingw32-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables ]

compiled 2011-07-12 on lizard (MINGW32_NT-6.0)

#;1> (require-extension numbers)

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/numbers.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/scheme.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/chicken.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/foreign.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/regex.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/irregex.import.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/numbers.so ...

; loading /usr/local/lib/chicken/6/regex.so ...

#;2> (* 111111111 111111111)

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