Re: [Chicken-users] ANN: new chicken-iup Windows installer with IUP gui, canvas-draw, scintilla etc. released.

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

On Sun, 17 May 2015 23:03:12 -0700 Matt Welland <address@hidden> wrote:

> WHAT: 
>
> The chicken-iup installer has been updated with Chicken 4.9.01, and
> recent versions of many eggs, the IUP gui including canvas-draw, and
> the iup scintilla editor support.
>
> STATUS: 
>
> chicken-iup appears to work just fine on WinXP and Windows 8. To
> install eggs not bundled with the installer you will need to install
> mingw (http://www.mingw.org/).
>
> WHO:
>
> Thanks to Matt Gushee for his help in making this happen.
>
> WHY:
>
> I find Chicken scheme to be a pragmatic and productive development
> tool. The chicken-iup package makes it very easy to develop on Linux
> and then deploy to both Linux and Windows.
>
> Download and run the chicken-iup installer and you can start creating
> scripts with an IUP gui in minutes. Add mingw and you can compile your
> scripts to executables. Get the very easy to use Inno setup
> (http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php) and generate installable
> packages. All with almost zero integration effort. If only it was this
> easy on Linux....

Nice work, Matts. :-)

Isn't a "WHERE" section missing?

Best wishes.
Mario
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