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Introduction

This aims to provide a comprehensive listing of all platforms where Chicken is available in pre-packaged form (whether as a distribution package or a binary).

To see on which platforms CHICKEN is supported, see portability.

In order to enable software written using CHICKEN to be effectively distributed, it is important that CHICKEN (or at least the CHICKEN libraries) be included in as many of the various packaging systems as possible, so that it can always be relied on as an available dependency.

Linux

Debian Linux

CHICKEN 2.3 (a very old version) is officially included in the Debian 3.1 (Sarge) and 4.0 (Etch) distributions. Newer CHICKEN versions are available via unofficial packages, please see Debian packages.

Ubuntu Linux

The Debian packages should work on Ubuntu, too. Can anyone confirm?

Gentoo Linux

Gentoo users can install chicken the normal way:

 emerge -auv chicken

This will download, compile and install the latest version of CHICKEN (if it is not already installed).

CHICKEN's Portage ebuild is maintained by Marijn Schouten.

Embedded Linux

OpenMoko

Note, this build is for phones flashed with 2007.1.

To install the interpreter (csi) and runtime library:

ipkg install http://chicken.wiki.br/download/chicken-scheme-interpreter_2.6_armv4t.ipk

For 2007.2 builds:

ipkg install http://zedstar.org/ipk/2007.2/chicken-scheme-interpreter_2.6_armv4t.ipk

Package maintained by john moore.

Mac OS X

MacPorts

If you're using MacPorts, installation is very simple. Open the Terminal application and type the following:

 sudo port install chicken

This will download, compile and install the latest CHICKEN version.

The MacPorts package is maintained by Arto Bendiken.

Note

When using certain extensions (posix is one example), you may come across the following error:

 "dlopen(libchicken.dylib, 9): image not found"

This means that you will have to set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the location of libchicken.dylib, usually /opt/local/lib. However, this will mess up some other programs, as they will look for their libraries in /opt/local/lib as well. One solution is to set up aliases for csi and csc in your bash profile. Add the following two lines to ~/.profile:

 alias csi=DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib csi
 alias csc=DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/local/lib csc

This will set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH for csi and csc, but not for other commands.

Fink

Fink users can type the following command in a Terminal:

 fink install chicken

This will download, compile and install the latest CHICKEN version.

BSD

NetBSD

For NetBSD, you can use the lang/chicken package from pkgsrc to install the latest stable release.

DragonFly BSD

For DragonFly BSD, you can use the lang/chicken package from pkgsrc to install the latest stable release.

Windows

No binaries available at this time (but soon!)

Other platforms/cross-platform support

pkgsrc

For many systems, you can use pkgsrc. This is a cross-platform packaging system, which works most modern Unix-like operating systems and even on Windows (using Interix/Services for Unix or Cygwin). See this table for the full list of supported platforms.