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Chibi-scheme for Windows

Chibi-scheme provides limited support for native desktop Windows. To use fully-featured Chibi-scheme on Windows, consider using POSIX layer such as Windows Subsytem for Linux(WSL), Cygwin or MSYS.

Currently, only R7RS Small libraries are available for the platform.

Supported Environments

Chibi-scheme can be compiled with following platforms:

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2017
  • MinGW32
  • MinGW64
  • MSYS

Known Issues

Following libraries are not ported yet:

  • (chibi net)
  • (chibi process) : exit is available through (scheme process-context)
  • (chibi stty)
  • (chibi system)
  • (chibi time)

Following library is not completely ported:

  • (chibi filesystem)

Other issues:

  • SRFI-27: Due to C Runtime limitation, the library is not thread-safe
  • make install is not supported on Windows platforms
  • On MSVC, flonum precision is degraded when compared with other compilers
  • Cross compilation is not supported

Build with MinGW(Makefile)

The top-level Makefile can be used with MinGW.

  1. Open MinGW64 or MinGW32 command prompt
  2. make
  3. make test

Currently, make doc is not supported on these platforms.

Build with MSYS(Makefile)

By default, the Makefile will compile against native Windows API. To use MSYS's own POSIX emulation layer, specify PLATFORM=msys.

  1. Open MSYS command prompt
  2. make PLATFORM=msys
  3. make PLATFORM=msys test

Build with Visual Studio(CMake)

Minimal CMakeLists.txt is provided as an example to build Chibi-scheme on Windows platforms. This is only intended to be used with Windows platforms; currently it does not provide features provided with standard Makefile nor it does not support UNIX/APPLE platforms either.

  1. (Make sure CMake was selected with Visual Studio installer)
  2. Open this directory with "Open with Visual Studio"
  3. Choose "x86-" or "x64-" configuration
  4. "CMake" => "Build all"
  5. "CMake" => "Tests" => "Run chibi-scheme Tests"