[Chicken-users] Chicken on Windows 10 - Was: [ANN] CHICKEN 5.0.0 release candidate 2 available

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

Hi all,

who is running chicken on Windows 10 here? How do you manage? I'm not sold 
to msys; I just tried first time and failed miserably.

Any idea how to do a better setup (for chicken 5 release candidates) 
welcome.


Maybe we can fix the support for msys2 nevertheless;
So far I found two issues on Windows 10 + msys2 + mingw-w64:

1. chicken-install does not pick up the contents of setup.defaults by 
itself.

  Workaround: chicken-install -defaults 
/usr/local/share/chicken/setup.defaults

  -- which is saying: give the defaults from the installation on the 
command line again.
  -- This does the download and generates the build scripts (*.build.bat)

2. Using "start" to open a window running cmd.exe I found that I can not 
call chicken-do using the full path. As it is in the PATH variable I tried 
to copy the invocation line with only the path leading to chicken-do 
removed.

  This leads to:
  /usr/local/bin/csc -host -D compiling-extension -J -s -setup-mode -I 
C:\msys64\home\... ... ....so
  creating subprocess failed

Best

/Jörg


On Sep 12 2018, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 02:30:12PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> > If you can, please let us know the following information about the
> > environment on which you test the RC:
>
> Operating system: MINGW64_NT-10.0
> Hardware platform: x86-64
> C Compiler: gcc.exe (Rev1, Built by MSYS2 project) 8.2.0
> Installation works?: yes
> Tests work?: yes
> Installation of eggs works?: no
>
> Installation of eggs fails like this (for all eggs; immediately):
>
> $ chicken-install.exe pastiche
>
> Error: extension or version not found: "pastiche"