Hey there!
On 2/27/26 17:34, brainchild--- via Chicken-users wrote:
Hello.
I wish to experiment with the developmental pre-releases of Chicken 6,
which seems to be generally possible only by building from source,
which in turn requires some adequate working binary copy of Chicken.
This is not entirely true, unless you're building directly from a
checked-out git repository. The builds on:
- https://code.call-cc.org/releases/
- https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/
Do not require bootstrapping, as these releases can be purely built with
a GNU Make and a compatible C compiler.
I am using a system with Mint 22.2, which is based on Ubuntu Noble. I
have installed the distribution package for Chicken, from Ubuntu
repositories, which is version 5.3.0. This version is most recent I
have so far been able to operate on my system.
For building more recent versions, I have cloned the development Git
repository, and attempted building from a variety of tags, including
`6.0.0pre3`, `6.0.0pre1`, `6.0.0-bootstrap`, and `5.4.0`. In all such
cases, the build fails immediately, with generally quite similar
messages.
It is a bit of a distraction, but for this purpose locally I am using
"basket," a tool I developed for installing and managing CHICKEN Scheme
installations and virtual environments. You might find more success with
that, for example:
basket toolchain install -d 5.4.0 6.0.0pre3
You can find more information in the docs
<https://thatgeoguy.gitlab.io/basket/introduction.html>.
To expand on this, I have successfully built chicken-core before using
basket, but it's a bit involved since I had to first install a
compatible version of CHICKEN to bootstrap. I am somewhat remembering
off of the top of my head but:
basket toolchain install -d 6.0.0pre3
cd $HOME/Code/chicken-core/
basket run -M ~/.config/basket/csenv.toml bash
export PLATFORM=linux
export PREFIX="$(systemd-path user-shared)/6.0.0-git"
export CHICKEN=$(which chicken)
./configure
make
Note that you will need `./configure` for CHICKEN 6, but not for 5.
Besides that, I don't know that I know nearly enough to get you going,
but I hope basket can be useful or this can help put you in the right
direction.
Cheers,
--
Jeremy Steward
