Re: [Chicken-users] Problem: Chicken-install OpenSSL / rand.h

[Claude Marinier]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, address@hidden wrote:
> Hmm. Maybe I should install openssl without making use of chicken-install?
> What would be a suitbable way to do it on windows?
>
> So far I have copied all header files from openssl sources to a directory,
> and then put the chicken openssl egg files into it (the latter were
> retrieved via "chicken-install openssl -retrieve")
>
> However, "chicken-install -location" refuses to accept my file paths.
>
> Could it be that chicken-install has rather weak support for the windows
> operating system? It seems that "/" and "\" are a real problem here.

Have you see these?

    http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

    http://qt-project.org/wiki/Compiling-OpenSSL-with-MinGW

There are likely other similar resources. Note that I have not used any of 
them. When faced with similar problems with MinGW, I now tend to move to 
cygwin. This sort of fight can be tiring and fruitless. Unix & Linux 
software just builds more easily with cygwin; this is expected since the 
mission of cygwin is to provide a compatibility layer between Unix/Linux/ 
POSIX software and MS Windows. Take a look at cugwin's license; some 
people do not like it.

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C Marinier