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chicken: A Scheme-to-C translator

Command to display chicken manual in Linux: $ man 1 chicken

NAME

chicken - A Scheme-to-C translator

SYNOPSIS

chicken PATHNAME [ OPTION ... ]

DESCRIPTION

CHICKEN is a compiler and interpreter for the programming language Scheme supporting most of the features as described in the Revised^5 Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme . The chicken program is the basic Scheme-to-C translator used in this system. For a more convenient interface, see the manual page for csc(1).

OPTIONS

Enter chicken -help for a list of supported command-line options.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

CHICKEN_PREFIX: Is used as a prefix directory for support files, include-files and libraries.
CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH: Contains one or more pathnames where the compiler should additionally look for include-files, separated by ; characters.
CHICKEN_OPTIONS: Holds a string of default compiler options that should apply to every invocation of chicken .

DOCUMENTATION

More information can be found in the CHICKEN User's Manual

AUTHORS

The CHICKEN Team.