Re: [Chicken-users] building under windows

[Peter Bex]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 10:27:58AM +0100, Răzvan Rotaru wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to build from the release tarball 4.8.0 (
> http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.8.0/chicken-4.8.0.tar.gz). The command
> run was:
> 
> D:\kit\chicken-4.8.0>mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=d:/programs/chicken
> > stderr.txt
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, chicken.exe .\build-version.scm
> -optimize-level 2 -include-path . -include-path ". -i
> nline" -ignore-repository -feature chicken-bootstrap -no-warnings
> -specialize -types .\types.db -explicit-use -no-trace
> -output-file build-version.c, ...) failed.
> make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified.

This looks like it's attempting to build build-version.c from
build-version.scm

I checked the tarball, but it contains the build-version.c file.
Can you double check it's in your file too?  Did you run any
extra commands before the one above?

Cheers,
Peter
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