Re: [Chicken-users] [Win32+VC8] Build problems: Stack overflow

[Liam Clarke]

Muhammad Haggag wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm trying to build chicken-scheme on Windows Vista 32 bit, with
> Visual Studio 8 SP1, from the command-line. After generating the
> makefile, NMake always fails at 40% progress with the following:
>
> [ 40%] Compiling C:/Users/Muhammad/chicken-2.6/match.scm to
> C:/Users/Muhammad/build-chicken-2.6/match.c
> Error: stack overflow
>        Call history:
>        <syntax>                (begin (register-feature! (quote match)))
>        <syntax>                (register-feature! (quote match))
>        <syntax>                (quote match)   <--
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'boot\chicken-boot.exe' : return code '0x46'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
> 8\VC\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
> I tried editing the make file CMakeFiles/boot-c.dir/build.make to use
> a larger stack size when compiling this file, but modifications seem
> to have no effect--NMake isn't seeing them, so I'm doing it wrong
> somehow (possibly modifying the wrong file).
>
> Note that building from the IDE doesn't work either--I tried it first.
> It gets stuck in exporting stuff from/to utils.export IIRC.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Muhammad,

I had the same problem with VS8 and used MinGW instead, which worked 
fine. I wrote up a wiki page on how to do if it helps.
http://chicken.wiki.br/compiling-chicken-on-windows-xp-with-mingw

Regards,

Liam Clarke