[Chicken-users] Compilation errors - Windows XP SP2, CMake 2.4.6 + VS 2005 (VS 8)

[Liam Clarke]

Hi all,

Trying to compile Chicken (as it looks very alluring), and having issues 
with the process.
Chicken-boot compiles successfully (albeit with 155 warnings), but 
cannot compile the *.scm files to *.c - each attempt results in a stack 
overflow; for example -

------ Build started: Project: lib-safe-c, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
Compiling C:/src/chicken/utils.scm to C:/dest/chicken/utils.c Exporting 
C:/dest/chicken/utils.exports
Error: stack overflow
Call history:
<syntax>  (begin (let ((m (read-string! n dest (car ports) (fx+ start 
c)))) (when (fx< m n) (set! ports (cdr p......
<syntax>  (let ((m (read-string! n dest (car ports) (fx+ start c)))) 
(when (fx< m n) (set! ports (cdr ports))...
<syntax>  (read-string! n dest (car ports) (fx+ start c))
<syntax>  (car ports)
<syntax>  (fx+ start c)
<syntax>  (begin (if (fx< m n) (begin (set! ports (cdr ports)))) (loop 
(fx- n m) (fx+ c m)))
<syntax>  (if (fx< m n) (begin (set! ports (cdr ports))))
<syntax>  (fx< m n)
<syntax>  (begin (set! ports (cdr ports)))
<syntax>  (set! ports (cdr ports))
<syntax>  (cdr ports)
<syntax>  (loop (fx- n m) (fx+ c m))
<syntax>  (fx- n m)
<syntax>  (fx+ c m)
<syntax>  (let () loop)
<syntax>  (begin loop) <--
Project : error PRJ0019: A tool returned an error code from "Compiling 
C:/src/chicken/utils.scm to C:/dest/chicken/utils.c Exporting 
C:/dest/chicken/utils.exports"

Attemping to manually compile with chicken-boot results in a stack 
overflow error, but with less detail.

I've tried 2.6 and the 2.6.0.8 snapshot, but no luck. Can anyone suggest 
some ways to remedy this? I'm going to download MinGW and see if a 
different compiler makes a diference, but I'll admit that I'm a complete 
C/C++ newbie, and as such may be neglecting some simple detail.

I have the full build log if it would help.

Regards,

Liam Clarke