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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

Ubuntu packages are being hosted at the Ubuntu-NLP repository [http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp/].
i386 and amd64 are both supported for gutsy, hardy, and intrepid. They can be installed as follows:

1) Add Ubuntu NLP to your /etc/apt/sources.list file:

# Ubuntu-NLP <http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp/>
deb http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp <distro> scheme
deb-src http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp <distro> scheme

where <distro> is one of the following: gutsy, hardy, intrepid

2) Add the repository's public key to your keyring for package verication:

wget http://cl.naist.jp/~eric-n/ubuntu-nlp/8ABD1965.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

3) Refresh the apt sources:

$ sudo apt-get update

4) Install chicken-bin;

$ sudo apt-get install chicken-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
 libchicken-dev libchicken3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 chicken-bin libchicken-dev libchicken3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 5691kB/6046kB of archives.
After this operation, 22.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
...

5) Enjoy the latest chicken under Ubuntu

$ csi

CHICKEN
(c)2008 The Chicken Team
(c)2000-2007 Felix L. Winkelmann
Version 3.4.0 - linux-unix-gnu-x86-64   [ 64bit manyargs dload ptables
applyhook ]
SVN rev. 11987  compiled 2009-02-27 on thyme (Linux)

#;1>
=== Gentoo Linux

[[http://www.gentoo.org/|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 [[http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?chicken-2.6|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 [[http://www.macports.org/|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 

[[http://www.finkproject.org/|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 [[http://www.pkgsrc.org|pkgsrc]] to install the latest stable release.


=== OpenBSD

For OpenBSD, you can use the {{lang/chicken}} package by running the following command as root:

<enscript>
$ pkg_add chicken
</enscript>


=== DragonFly BSD

For DragonFly BSD, you can use the {{lang/chicken}} package from [[http://www.pkgsrc.org|pkgsrc]] to install the latest stable release.

== Windows

Chicken 3.4.0 is available as a Cygwin package: [[http://cygwin.com/packages/chicken/]].

== Solaris

Version 3.3.0 packages for SPARC/Solaris 8-10 and x86/Solaris 10 can be found at [[http://www.sunfreeware.com]].  Installation instructions are available on the main page of that site.

== Other platforms/cross-platform support

=== pkgsrc

For many systems, you can use [[http://www.pkgsrc.org|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 [[http://www.netbsd.org/docs/software/packages.html#platforms|this table]] for the full list of supported platforms.