Switched to MinGW W64 in MS Windows Vista and build chicken 4.10.0 without problem; even the check works well (does not hang). MinGW W64 provides gcc version 5.1.0.
gcc (i686-posix-dwarf-rev0, Built by MinGW-W64 project) 5.1.0
This in interesting because it differs from Matt Gushee's experience.
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Operating system: Arch Linux
> Hardware platform: x86-64
> C Compiler: gcc 5.1.0
> Installation works?: yes
> Tests work?: no [hangs on apply-test.scm]
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