Re: [Chicken-users] building on windows

[Brandon J. Van Every]

felix winkelmann wrote:
> On 12/24/06, Mark Baily <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Is the thrashing you're talking about occurring inside the actual 
> > compiler
> > or inside chicken-boot.exe produced by the compiler? The infinite 
> > loop I get
> > is inside chicken-boot.exe.
> >
> > I tried the stack size thing, but it didn't fix.
>
> If you add something pointless (like "(void)") to stub.scm,
> does it still hang? You could also try to add additional flags to
> the chicken-boot invocation, like "-verbose -debug p" to see
> the specific compiler pass it's hanging in (or whether different
> command-line options change memory usage - which may indicate
> a GC loop).

I haven't tried any of these, don't have time at present.  I have 
reproduced the "infinite compile in stub.scm" behavior using VC++ 2005 
Express.  Interestingly, Chicken 2.3 builds chicken-boot.exe just fine.  
chicken-boot.exe is the one that chokes, when compiling 
E:/devel/src/chicken/stub.scm to E:/devel/vc8/chicken/stub.c.  So it is 
only a recent Chicken that has the problem.  I will try some earlier 
Chicken builds to see if I can narrow down when this started happening.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every