Re: [Chicken-users] [ANN] Chicken on Raspberry Pi

[Martin DeMello]

Wow, I've been wondering what to do with my Raspberry Pi and Alaric's
idea looks fantastic.

martin

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Erik Falor <address@hidden> wrote:
> I want to announce that Chicken 4.7.0.6 builds & runs on a Raspberry
> Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/).
>
> I did this without the need to hack any files or pass any exotic
> arguments to make.  It just worked.
>
> I didn't time(1) the build, but judging by the timestamps on the
> artifacts I estimate that it took over 1 hour 40 minutes to complete.
>
> I've tested it by chicken-installing some eggs and rebuilding some
> projects that I've worked on.  So far, so good!
>
> As of this writing I'm still building some eggs on my Pi (as I said,
> it is a bit slow).  I suppose I should spend some time setting up a
> cross-compilation env on my Gentoo desktop.  I'll update my progress
> on my blog at unnovative.net.
>
> Now I'd like to see Alaric Snell-Pym's great idea come to fruition:
>
> http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/archives/2012/08/01/getting-kids-into-programming-and-what-the-raspberry-pi-is-lacking/
>
> --
> Erik Falor                                       http://unnovative.net
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