[Chicken-users] ANN: new chicken-iup Windows installer with IUP gui, canvas-draw, scintilla etc. released.

[Matt Welland]

WHAT:

The chicken-iup installer has been updated with Chicken 4.9.01, and recent versions of many eggs, the IUP gui including canvas-draw, and the iup scintilla editor support.

STATUS:

chicken-iup appears to work just fine on WinXP and Windows 8. To install eggs not bundled with the installer you will need to install mingw (http://www.mingw.org/).

WHO:

Thanks to Matt Gushee for his help in making this happen.

WHY:

I find Chicken scheme to be a pragmatic and productive development tool. The chicken-iup package makes it very easy to develop on Linux and then deploy to both Linux and Windows.

Download and run the chicken-iup installer and you can start creating scripts with an IUP gui in minutes. Add mingw and you can compile your scripts to executables. Get the very easy to use Inno setup (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) and generate installable packages. All with almost zero integration effort. If only it was this easy on Linux....