I don’t have Visual C++ installed on my home PC and many of the eggs require a C compiler in order to compile and install them. What would be perfect for me needs would be:
- An easily installable Chicken Scheme (e.g. using .msi)
- …that was built using MinGW / MSYS
- …and can use MinGW / MSYS to build and install new eggs
- …and has a chicken-setup.exe that “just works” with these tools
The chicken mailing list indicates that there are problems with building the current version from the source repository, failing to include srfi-1 amongst other problems. I’ll try to build it myself once I have reinstalled Windows.
Tools required:
| Darcs | http://abridgegame.org/darcs |
| Chicken 2.3 Win32 binary |
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org |
| Latest chicken from darcs repository | $ darcs get http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/chicken |
| MinGW + MSYS | http://www.mingw.org |
Originally posted: Saturday, July 08, 2006
