Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken on Windows (MinGW)

[Arthur Maciel]

Mario, thanks for the instructions. Unfortunately, they didn´t worked, presenting the same error when installing awful (even after installing uri-generic first).

Anyway, I faced a bigger error: I made a fresh install using 'mingw32-make PLATFORM=mingw PREFIX=c:\chicken'.

With this new path I cannot install eggs, as chicken-install complains: "Error (require): cannot load extension: setup-download". If I go into "c:\chicken\lib\chicken\5" and run chicken-install it says: "retrieving... Error: extension or version not found".

This definitely does not happen if I install chicken without PREFIX. It seems there is a hard coded link into "c:\usr\local" prefix in config files. What do you think? That´s the only thing I can imagine.

Regards,

Arthur

2010/5/13 Mario Domenech Goulart <address@hidden>

Hi Arthur!

On Wed, 12 May 2010 17:39:26 -0300 Arthur Maciel <address@hidden> wrote:

> I tried compiling it with MinGW and worked charmingly.
>
> I'm facing problems installing awful egg, as it complains that required version
> of 'uri-generic' is older than 2. It says to run 'chicken-install
> uri-generic:2', but no package is found.

That's awful. :-) Strangely enough, awful doesn't directly depend on
uri-generic.  Maybe it's uri-common which requires uri-generic >= 2.

uri-common is required by intarweb and spiffy, and both are required by
awful.  In fact there's no version "2", but there's "2.something".
Maybe the message presented by chicken-install is misleading.

You can try to update uri-generic. You just need to run

   $ chicken-install uri-generic

This command will pick the latest uri-generic version.

> Congratulation for the wonderful job done. Running chicken on Windows
> tremendously expands my applications usefulness!

Thanks for the feedback. :-)

Best wishes.
Mario
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