Re: [Chicken-users] Install of 4.8.0 under windows (mingw) fails

[Felix]

From: Matt Welland <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] Install of 4.8.0 under windows (mingw) fails
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:36:10 -0700

> I'm trying to bring chicken-iup up to date but having problems getting a
> working base chicken install.
> 
> Installing under mingw-msys gives me a working csi but chicken-install does
> not work (it can't find the repository).

What installation prefix did you select when you built and installed
it? (The parameters given to make(1))

> 
> Installing under mingw gives me this:
> 
> chicken.exe  .\build-version.scm -optimize-level 2 -include-path .
> -include-path
>  .\ -inline -ignore-repository -feature chicken-bootstrap -no-warnings
> -speciali
> ze -types .\types.db   -explicit-use -no-trace -output-file build-version.c
> process_begin: CreateProcess(NULL, chicken.exe .\build-version.scm
> -optimize-lev
> el 2 -include-path . -include-path ". -inline" -ignore-repository -feature
> chick
> en-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.
> mingw32-make[1]: *** [build-version.c] Error 2
> mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `Z:/chicken-iup/chicken-4.8.0'
> mingw32-make: *** [all] Error 2

This is a bug in the build files, unfortunately. Please extract the
files from the 4.8.0 tarball and remove the line in rules.make which
looks like this:

  .PHONY: buildid buildbranch

(or something similar)

Otherwise buildversion.scm will always be recompiled, and requires
"chicken.exe", which hasn't been created yet.


cheers,
felix