Re: How to get started in guile & programming generally

[Amirouche Boubekki]

Using guix on my Ubuntu I successfully installed chickadee master.

Try to install guix again and report the error you have please :]
Le mer. 29 août 2018 à 23:09, Joshua Branson <address@hidden> a écrit :
>
> Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> I've heard about chickadee!  I've tried to install it before, but I
> >> haven't been successful yet.  Perhaps I'll have to try again.
> >
> > What's the issue?  Please post a backtrace.
> > I can chickadee flawlessly here, maybe I can help.
> Well, I don't have guix installed at the moment.  I've tried to install
> guix as the main OS several times and I keep failing.  I suppose I
> shouldn't blame myself too much.  I mean, I did try to get it to work.
>
> I've also tried installing guix on my Parabola machine.  Also I never
> seem to be able to get it to work well either.  Anyway,  I've installed
> guile now.  I just downloaded chickadee 2.0 tarball.  I got this error:
>
> configure: error: required guile module not found: (gl)
>
> I looked, and unfortunately parabola doesn't seem to have guile-gl
> packaged.  :(  I could probably go do an internet search and figure out
> how to install a guile module, but it's not on the highest of my list of
> priorities now.  I'll get to it someday soon.
>
> I'm sorry if this email has a defeatist attitude.  :(
> >
> > And by the way, chickadee is an awesome piece of software: it is such a
> > refreshing video game programming experience.
>