Re: [Chicken-users] chicken 4.8.3 on MinGW

[Claude Marinier]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Peter Bex wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:08:35PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am happily using Chicken Scheme 4.8.3 on MS Windows 7 and Vista. The
> > key is reading the README file and the helpful web page.
> >
> > There is one problem: make check fails as follows. Note that I built from
> > a Windows command prompt like this.
> >
> >   mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=C:/Chicken
> >   mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=C:/Chicken install
> >   chicken-install numbers
> >
> > All those work without error and I can compile and run my application.
>
> Hi Claude,
>
> Thanks for your report.  Have you tried a git master build?  We recently
> fixed this bug, but there's no dev snapshot in which it is fixed yet.
> It should be fixed in 4.9.0 as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
> --
> http://www.more-magic.net

Hi,

I am willing to try this. One question: Is it possible to do all the work 
from a MS Windows command prompt or should I do some of the work on Linux?

Thanks.

--
Claude Marinier