Re: [Chicken-users] 2.2 on windows gunzip and tar

[Brandon J. Van Every]

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 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
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