Re: Trying to build chicken on windows (11) in the msys2 environment

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> Hello list
>
> At work on a windows computer I installed the MSYS2 package,
> as described at https://www.msys2.org/
>
> Installed the tool chain according to the description at
> http://wiki.call-cc.org/msys2 (copy paste the pacman command).
>
> Downloaded the chicken tar ball
> https://code.call-cc.org/releases/5.4.0/chicken-5.4.0.tar.gz
>
> Unpack and cd into the chicken directory.
>
> During compilation I get errors. Here is the make call and the output
>
>[...]
>
> Any ideas on why it fails?
>

Apparently the types don't match. If you change the casts in the macro definitions
for C_u_i_execve and C_u_i_spawnvpe from "const char* const*" to "char *const*",
does the build succeed?


felix
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