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

Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.chicken
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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