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== Supported Platforms

With version 2.7, a new and simpler build-system has been introduced.
This page lists all platforms in which the new version has been confirmed to build and run.

<table>
<tr><th>Operating system</th>   <th>Architecture</th>   <th>manyargs</th><th>dload</th><th>Latest<BR>Version<BR>Tested</th><th>Comments</th></tr>
<tr><td>Linux</td>              <td>Alpha</td><td></td> <td>x</td><td>2.725</td><td>gcc 2.95.4</td></tr>
<tr><td>Linux</td>              <td>ARM/XScale</td>     <td></td>       <td>x</td><td>2.704</td>
<td>Built on Angstrom on a Zaurus and on OpenMoko using task-native-sdk (gcc 4.1)</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>Linux</td>      <td>PowerPC</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>3.3.0</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Linux</td>      <td>x86-64</td> <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>3.3.0</td>  <td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Linux</td>      <td>x86</td>    <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>3.3.0</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Mac OS X 10.4</td>      <td>PowerPC</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td><td>3.0.0</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>NetBSD</td>             <td>x86-64</td><td>x</td>       <td>x</td><td>3.0.1</td><td>GCC 3.3 on amd64 seems to produce Chicken binaries that segfault.  NetBSD 4.0 comes with GCC 4.1, which is fine.</td></tr>
<tr><td>NetBSD</td>     <td>PowerPC</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>3.0.1</td>  <td></td></tr>
<tr><td>NetBSD</td>     <td>Sparc64</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.740</td>  <td></td></tr>
<!-- OpenBSD 4.2 -->
<!-- information pulled from http://www.openbsd.org/4.2_packages/ -->
<!-- precompiled packages are not available for m68k, sh, sparc, or vax. -->
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>alpha</td>  <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>amd64</td>  <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>arm</td>    <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>hppa</td>   <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>arm</td>    <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>i386</td>   <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>powerpc</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>OpenBSD</td>    <td>sparc64</td>        <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td>2.6</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Windows/mingw32</td>    <td>x86</td>    <td>x</td>      <td>x</td>      <td></td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Solaris 9</td>  <td>Sparc</td>  <td></td>       <td>x</td>      <td></td>       <td></td></tr>
</table>

;manyargs: supports up to 1000 procedure arguments (instead of the normal 126)

;dload: supports dynamic loading of compiled code