Fw: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows

Forgot to forward this to the mailing list, I'm still getting the hang of this mailing list stuff

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Srayan Jana

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From: Srayan Jana <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2025 10:38 AM
To: Felix Winkelmann <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows

So, I was able to get it working on WSL just fine, but on windows 11 specifically using MSYS2 I got this
```
sraya@Penelope MSYS /c/git-repos/chicken-core
$ ./scripts/bootstrap.sh
--2025-10-21 10:37:30--  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/12/09/chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz
Loaded CA certificate '/usr/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt'
Resolving code.call-cc.org (code.call-cc.org)... 78.47.93.131
Connecting to code.call-cc.org (code.call-cc.org)|78.47.93.131|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4284693 (4.1M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: ‘chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz’

chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz      100%[=================================================>]   4.09M  2.81MB/s    in 1.5s

2025-10-21 10:37:32 (2.81 MB/s) - ‘chicken-6.0.0pre1.tar.gz’ saved [4284693/4284693]

detecting platform ...
unable to figure out platform

sraya@Penelope MSYS /c/git-repos/chicken-core
$
```

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Srayan Jana

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From: Felix Winkelmann <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2025 1:52 AM
To: Srayan Jana <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows

On Mon Oct 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM CEST, Srayan Jana via Chicken-users wrote:
> I've been trying to get into Chicken scheme, and I've been trying to build 6.0/master from source, but I keep getting into weird issues with the configure script, and I could never figure out how to setup the bootstrap build as well.
>
> Are there other windows users who have built Chicken from source? I'd love some tips!

Hi!

Sorry for the somehwat involved build process, this is indeed a bit clunky
in the moment (and we're working on that). Bootstrapping manually is a bit
of a pain, have you tried scripts/bootstrap.sh? Alternatively I can
put together an inofficial distribution tarball that should make things
easier, as a short term solution.


cheers,
felix