Re: [Chicken-users] chicken 4.8.3 on MinGW

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Claude,

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 19:04:49 -0400 (EDT) Claude Marinier <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Apr 2014, Peter Bex wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:08:35PM -0400, Claude Marinier wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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?

You can do everything on Windows.  Here's roughly how you can build the
git code (you'll need a working chicken -- I'll assume it's under
c:/Chicken):

  $ git clone git://code.call-cc.org/chicken-core
  $ cd chicken-core
  $ make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/chicken-master 
CHICKEN=c:/Chicken/bin/chicken.exe boot-chicken
  $ make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:/chicken-master CHICKEN=./chicken-boot.exe 
spotless install check

Best wishes.
Mario
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