On: Chicken Scheme 5.0

[eggy]

Great to see this. I liked using Chicken on Linux, but unfortunately for me, I am on Windows and do not like using Cygwin or Mingw to compile it for Windows. There is no current MSVS solution as far as I know for now. I use Racket, Extempore [1], and I play with Shen [2] for my lispy appetite. Shen has been ported to Chez Scheme, which is also what Racket is being re-written in (sort of).

[1] https://extemporelang.github.io

[2] http://shenlanguage.org

[mattnewport → eggy]

Not sure if this will work for your use case but have you tried compiling it with WSL? It's much more convenient way to work with Linux software on Windows but may not be what you're looking for if you want to link a library in to a Windows project.

[johncowan → mattnewport]

Chicken works great on WSL. I used to have it on both WSL and Cygwin.

[eggy → johncowan]

I am not running Windows 10 on my daily computer. I’ll try this on my other box. Thanks!

[eggy → eggy]

Still a bit of a hassle, but I got it working. It's a shame it isn't easier to install like Racket, Shen or CL.

I really want this to build as a Windows exe without the need for the Posix stuff, I think?