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Re: [Chicken-users] 2.2 on windows gunzip and tar
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Daishi Kato |
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Re: [Chicken-users] 2.2 on windows gunzip and tar |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 21:33:26 +0900 |
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Wanderlust/2.15.1 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/21.4 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
At Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:48:57 -0800,
Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
> Daishi Kato wrote:
>
> >
> >BTW, chicken-setup requires gunzip and tar.
> >What kind of tools are the people who uses chicken on win32 using?
> >The gunzip binary from the GNU site works fine, but the tar binary does not.
> >I don't like to install SFU since it comes with many other tools (too big).
> >
> >
> I have been using http://www.7-zip.org successfully for tar.gz stuff.
> Sometimes it chokes on .zip stuff, in which case I fall back to WinZip.
> 7-Zip is a GUI driven tool, so perhaps this doesn't solve your problem.
> Collections of GNU tools for Windows:
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
I tried the second one and it works fine for me.
Thank you,
Daishi
> I cannot vouch for their quality. "Where is the address@hidden@# tool?" is
> an
> issue that periodically pops up. I imagine chicken-setup would force
> the issue. I still haven't gotten far enough with building Chicken
> reliably on Windows to move on to chicken-setup issues, but hey,
> signature gathering is over so this week I can try to beat CMake into
> submission. I would say that relying on shoddy / haphazard GNU tools on
> Windows is not a good design. Ideally Chicken would have its own
> reliable tar and gz reader libraries and not be dependent on external tools.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
> "The pioneer is the one with the arrows in his back."
> - anonymous entrepreneur
>
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