Summary
Chicken 5.4.0 doesn't build on Windows
Metadata
- Id: 1651aaac9cfd5b2e7a858f74865a0595d4a0d896
- Trac id: 1862
- Type: defect
- Reporter: MickeyKnox
- Owner:
- Cc: MickeyKnox
- Status: new
- Component: unknown
- Estimated difficulty:
- Resolution:
- Priority: major
- Milestone: someday
- Version: 5.4.0
- Changetime: 2025-12-23 03:53:26 UTC
- Created: 2025-12-22 20:29:12 UTC
- Keywords:
Description
I've been following this guide to get up and running with Chicken on Windows:
https://wiki.call-cc.org/msys2#installing-chicken-50-on-msys2
When trying to compile Chicken I get compiler errors:
gcc -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H -DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -c -Os -DC_BUILDING_LIBCHICKEN posixwin.c -o posixwin-static.o -I. -I./
In file included from posixwin.c:9:
posixwin.c: In function 'f_4799':
posixwin.c:185:57: error: passing argument 2 of 'execve' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
185 | #define C_u_i_execve(f,a,e) C_fix(execve(C_c_string(f), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_ve, (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(e)))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| const char * const*
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9646:17: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_execve'
9646 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_execve(t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_execvp(t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
In file included from C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/unistd.h:11,
from chicken.h:134:
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:187:64: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
187 | _CRTIMP int __cdecl execve(const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
posixwin.c:185:109: error: passing argument 3 of 'execve' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
185 | #define C_u_i_execve(f,a,e) C_fix(execve(C_c_string(f), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(a), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(e)))
|
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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|
const char * const*
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9646:17: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_execve'
9646 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_execve(t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_execvp(t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:187:87: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
187 | _CRTIMP int __cdecl execve(const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[],char *const _Env[) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~
posixwin.c:184:57: error: passing argument 2 of 'execvp' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
184 | #define C_u_i_execvp(f,a) C_fix(execvp(C_c_string(f), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_ve))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| const char * const*
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9646:40: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_execvp'
9646 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_execve(t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_execvp(t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:188:64: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
188 | _CRTIMP int __cdecl execvp(const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
posixwin.c: In function 'f_4882':
posixwin.c:189:75: error: passing argument 3 of 'spawnvpe' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
189 | #define C_u_i_spawnvpe(m,f,a,e) C_fix(spawnvpe(C_unfix(m), C_c_string(f), (const char *cons, (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(e)))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| const char * const*
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9768:17: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_spawnvpe'
9768 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_spawnvpe(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_spawnvp(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:199:75: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
199 | _CRTIMP intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[],char *const _Env[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
posixwin.c:189:127: error: passing argument 4 of 'spawnvpe' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
189 | #define C_u_i_spawnvpe(m,f,a,e) C_fix(spawnvpe(C_unfix(m), C_c_string(f), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(a), (const char *const *)C_c_pointer_vector_or_null(e)))
|
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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const char * const*
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9768:17: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_spawnvpe'
9768 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_spawnvpe(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_spawnvp(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:199:98: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
199 | _CRTIMP intptr_t __cdecl spawnvpe(int,const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[],char *) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~
posixwin.c:188:74: error: passing argument 3 of 'spawnvp' from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]
188 | #define C_u_i_spawnvp(m,f,a) C_fix(spawnvp(C_unfix(m), C_c_string(f), (const char *const))
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| |
| const char * const
chicken.h:1046:56: note: in definition of macro 'C_fix'
1046 | #define C_fix(n) ((C_word)((C_uword)(n) << C_FIXNUM_SHIFT) | C_FIXNUM_BIT)
| ^
posixwin.c:9768:59: note: in expansion of macro 'C_u_i_spawnvp'
9768 | t6=(C_truep(t4)?C_u_i_spawnvpe(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3,t4):C_u_i_spawnvp(((C_word*)t0)[2],t2,t3));
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
C:/msys64/ucrt64/include/process.h:198:74: note: expected 'char * const*' but argument is of type 'const char * const*'
198 | _CRTIMP intptr_t __cdecl spawnvp(int,const char *_Filename,char *const _ArgList[]) __MINGW_ATTRIB_DEPRECATED_MSVC2005;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~
make: *** [rules.make:121: posixwin-static.o] Error 1
Changes and comments
[2025-12-22 20:33:39 UTC] MickeyKnox changed description
[2025-12-22 21:39:27 UTC] mario wrote:
I believe that is the same problem reported in https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2024-08/msg00009.html (there's a suggestion and a patch in the messages that follow in that thread).
[2025-12-23 03:53:26 UTC] MickeyKnox wrote:
Yes, that looks like it's the same problem. The easiest method to get the fixes would probably be to check it out from git, right? There are quite a few chicken-5-* branches. Is simply chicken-5 a good choice?
PS: Am I right to assume that the master branch tracks the developement of chicken-6?
PPS: I didn't receive an email for your comment, although I did check the CC box. Shouldn't that have generated an email for me?