Re: Can't figure out how to build from source on Windows
Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.lisp.scheme.chicken |
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On Tue Oct 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM CEST, Srayan Jana wrote: > Bootstrap script failed here (using w64devkit) > ```C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/bin/chicken-install -defaults ./setup.defaults -update-db > loading import libraries ... > generating database ... > mkdir -p "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1" > mkdir -p "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc" > mkdir -p "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken" > cp -r ./chicken.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken.1" > cp -r ./csc.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/csc.1" > cp -r ./csi.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/csi.1" > cp -r ./chicken-do.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken-do.1" > cp -r ./chicken-install.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken-install.1" > cp -r ./chicken-uninstall.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken-uninstall.1" > cp -r ./chicken-status.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken-status.1" > cp -r ./chicken-profile.mdoc "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/man/man1/chicken-profile.1" > mkdir -p "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc/manual" > cp -r ./manual-html/* "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc/manual" > cp -r ./README "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc" > cp -r ./DEPRECATED "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc" > cp -r ./LICENSE "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken/doc" > cp -r ./setup.defaults "C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken" > detecting platform ... on Windows, the prefix must contain a drive letter > C:/git-repos/chicken-core $``` > Ok, so building the bootstrap chicken succeeded, but then fails (again) in configure. What is the output of "uname" on your system? cheers, felix