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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 3.2.7 is officially included in the Debian Lenny distribution. 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
This package consists of the runtime library plus interpreter. The version of Chicken is 2.733.
ipkg install http://zedstar.org/ipk/chicken-scheme-interpreter_2.733_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.
Installing the readline egg
You can install the readline egg to get history and tab-completion in csi. See Using the interpreter.
However, you may get errors when compiling the egg. This is because Apple doesn't ship GNU readline with OS X. However, there is an easy fix:
port install readline
Fixing libchicken.dylib
When using certain extensions (posix is one example), you may come across the following error:
"dlopen(libchicken.dylib, 9): image not found"
The easiest way to fix this is to add an alias to libchicken.dylib to /usr/local/lib, like so:
sudo ln -s /opt/local/lib/libchicken.dylib /usr/local/lib/
Another solution is to set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to the location of libchicken.dylib. 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.
OpenBSD
For OpenBSD, you can use the lang/chicken package by running the following command as root:
$ pkg_add chicken
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.