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== Platform packages

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

=== Arch Linux

* [[http://www.archlinux.org/|Arch]] users can install CHICKEN 4.8.0.3
  from its official community repository:

  pacman -S chicken

* Furthermore, almost all [[Eggs]] are available in its [[http://aur.archlinux.org/|AUR]] repository.

=== Debian Linux

* CHICKEN 4.8.0 is officially included in the Debian Sid (unstable) distribution.
* CHICKEN 4.7.0 is officially included in the Debian Wheezy (testing) distribution.
* CHICKEN 4.5.0 is officially included in the Debian Squeeze (stable) distribution.
* CHICKEN 3.2.7 is officially included in the Debian Lenny (old stable) distribution. 

For a complete Chicken install on Debian, you need to 
 # aptitude install chicken-bin libchicken-dev libchicken6

[[http://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/chicken|Debian page for the CHICKEN source package.]]

=== Fedora Linux (and RHEL derivatives, via EPEL)

* CHICKEN 4.8.0 is officially included in the Fedora 18 and 19 distributions.
* CHICKEN 4.8.0 is officially included in the EPEL 6 repository for RHEL and derivatives.

=== Ubuntu Linux

* CHICKEN 4.8.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Raring distribution.
* CHICKEN 4.7.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Precise and Quantal distributions.
* CHICKEN 4.6.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Oneiric distribution.
* CHICKEN 4.5.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Natty and Maverick distributions.
* CHICKEN 4.2.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Lucid distribution.
* CHICKEN 3.4.0 is officially included in the Ubuntu Karmic distribution. 
* CHICKEN 3.2.7 is officially included in the Ubuntu Jaunty distribution. 

=== 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/package/dev-scheme/chicken|Portage ebuild]] is maintained by Marijn Schouten.

=== OpenSUSE

There are currently two unofficial builds of Chicken for [[http://opensuse.org/|OpenSuSE]], which are built and kept updated using OpenSuSE's build service facility [[https://build.opensuse.org/|OBS]]. They can be obtained by adding the corresponding repository [[https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=chicken&project=home%3Amwilhelmy|home:mwilhelmy]] or [[https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=chicken&project=home%3Aavli%3Ascheme|home:avli:scheme]] to zypper's repository list and installing from there.

You need something along the lines of

 # zypper addrepo -r http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/mwilhelmy/openSUSE_12.2/home:mwilhelmy.repo
 # zypper refresh
 # zypper install chicken chicken-devel chicken-doc

for a complete installation of the CHICKEN scheme system.

=== Embedded Linux

==== OpenEmbedded

[[http://github.com/OSSystems|meta-chicken]] is a layer for [[http://www.openembedded.org|OpenEmbedded]] which can be used to cross-compile Chicken and eggs.


==== 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 [[/users/john moore|john moore]].

==== Maemo 5

Instructions for getting Chicken (4.4) and many eggs from a handy optified deb repository are at: http://0xab.com/n900

Package maintained by [[http://0xab.com/|Andrei Barbu]].



== 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 [[/users/arto-bendiken|Arto Bendiken]].

==== Installing the readline egg

You can install the readline egg to get history and tab-completion in csi. See [[/manual/Using the interpreter|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.

=== Homebrew

If you're using [[https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/|Homebrew]] you can install the formula chicken:

    brew install chicken

== BSD

=== FreeBSD

For FreeBSD, you can use the {{lang/chicken}} port to install the latest stable release.

=== 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.

== Haiku

=== HaikuPorts

Chicken has been added to the official [[http://ports.haiku-files.org|ports repository]] and can be installed with the following command:

  haikuporter -i chicken


== 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.

=== Microsoft Windows 

[[http://www.kiatoa.com/cgi-bin/chicken-iup/home|Installer for Windows, includes the IUP and Canvas Draw eggs preinstalled]]

[[https://bitbucket.org/roti/chicken-installer/downloads|Another installer for Windows]]