[Chicken-users] Cygwin installation report

[Mark Carter]

Hi,

Felix asked me to try compiling the latest version of chicken from git. I am 
happy to announce that it all goes very well - expect for the command 
chicken-install - which seems to be a Win7/Vista problem. Here's a more 
detailed report of what I did:

I installed a fresh copy of cygwin - ensuring that chicken 3.4.0 was NOT 
included in the installation. I then performed the following actions:
git clone http://chicken.wiki.br/git/chicken-core.git
cd chicken-core
make PLATFORM=cygwin confclean
make PLATFORM=cygwin PREFIX=/usr/local bootstrap 
make PLATFORM=cygwin PREFIX=/usr/local CHICKEN=./chicken-boot
make PLATFORM=cygwin PREFIX=/usr/local install
cd ..
csi

csi worked successfully. I obtained the output
CHICKEN
(c)2008-2010 The Chicken Team
(c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
Version 4.4.1
windows-cygwin-x86 [ manyargs dload ptables ]
compiled 2010-03-12 on mcarter-PC (CYGWIN_NT-6.1)

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I also confirm that csc compiles a file correctly.

FYI, the git commit from which chicken was built is:
commit 590e58d9cfaed30d1b79abcc8bab4c13b80691ce
Author: felix <address@hidden>
Date:   Fri Mar 12 07:51:21 2010 +0100


Installation of eggs proved problematical:
chicken-install loop
bash: /usr/local/bin/chicken-install: Permission denied

To overcome this, I did:
cp /usr/local/bin/chicken-install.exe /usr/local/bin/chickeni.exe

It is then possible to do:
chickeni loop
csi
> (use loop)