Re: csm -static: could not find linked extension

On Mon Aug 24, 2026 at 5:43 PM CEST, Matto Fransen via Chicken-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed Chicken Scheme 6.0.0 from the targz on FreeBSD 15.1
> and wanted to compile my program that uses modules.
>
> When I try to build using csm with -static, I get an error
> "csc: could not find linked extension".
> Without the -static, it builds fine.
>
> I tried to bring it back to the minimum as an example:
>[...]
> and trying to build with:
>
> csm -static -program hello -main hello-main.scm
>
> which will generate the error:
> csc: could not find linked extension: hello-print

There has been a change how csm names objects and so csc (from the chicken
core) wasn't able to find the module/link file. I apologize for breaking
this - please try a more recent CHICKEN version, from git, if possible or
by downloading a development snapshot that I will prepare in the next days,
hopefully.

Note that the "-main hello-main.scm" seems wrong, the program should
build fine without it (also: -main wants a module name, not filename).

thanks for reporting the problem.


cheers,
felix