Re: Cannot use chicken-install crunch on windows

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 05:10:28AM +0000, Srayan Jana via Chicken-users wrote:
> Hello again!
> Sorry for all the emails to the mailing list, I'm just running into a lot of stuff haha
> 
> So, I tried installing crunch on native windows using my built version of chicken and I got this error

I'm not sure exactly what your build looks like, but from the errors
you're getting, I can glean two issues:

- It sounds like you are mixing mingw stuff and powershell.
  CHICKEN 5 supports either, but you have to keep using the same
  platform you used to build CHICKEN (so either all CMD.COM or
  all mingw-msys tools; Powershell isn't supported AFAIK).
  CHICKEN 6 dropped CMD.COM (plain mingw, without msys) support
  so you'll have to use msys everywhere.
- It sounds like you may have used backslashes for the target
  path while building.  You *must* use forward slashes everywhere if I
  remember correctly.  The README should mention this.

So you probably have to build from scratch and fix the issues above,
then try again.

Cheers,
Peter