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

On Tue Oct 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM CEST, Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users wrote:
>
> Ok, so building the bootstrap chicken succeeded, but then fails (again) in configure.
>
> What is the output of "uname" on your system?

Sorry, I'm on the wrong tack there. Apparently the bootstrap script
doesn't work too well on Windows...

Just run

  ./configure --chicken C:/git-repos/chicken-core/boot/chicken-6.0.0pre1/../snapshot/share/chicken \
    --prefix C:<where-it-should-go>

manually, and then

  make boot-chicken

This will produce a chicken-boot (hopefully) that you can then use to
build the final version, like this:

  ./configure --chicken ./chicken-boot --prefix ...
  make
  make install

If that should work out, I will provide a dev snaphot that you can build
directly from. But it would still be interesting to see if the steps
given above work.


cheers,
felix