Solutions to common problems for setting up Chicken Scheme on Guix and Windows

Chicken-Scheme.scm

;; GUIX WSL

;; When chicken-installing an egg: "error: linux/errno.h - No such file or directory"
;; Solution: 'guix install glibc' then restart the system. 
;; Source: https://www.mail-archive.com/help-guix@gnu.org/msg11969.html

;; If running Guix via WSL, restart the system by doing 
;; 'wsl -d guix --shutdown', then re-run your guix-init.sh with
;; wsl.exe -d guix /bin/busybox sh -c "/mnt/c/sys/misc/guix-init.sh"
;; See https://gist.github.com/vldn-dev/de379bf81a80ff0a53cd851bcc3bbff2 for installing Guix on WSL.

;; Windows

;; To get chicken-install to work at all, download win-bash and add all of the programs to your path to enable
;; the use of cp and other Linux only commands

;; For SRFI-18, you will get an error saying '""C:' is not a valid command. Go into the %appdata%/local for chicken-install,
;; and change the build.bat to run csi and csc instead of %CSI_PATH% and %CSC_PATH%

;; For inferior Scheme in emacs, it's (setq scheme-program-name "csi -:c")

;; Both

;; When chicken-installing an egg: "install: cannot stat ".../srfi-(number).types" No such file or directory"
;; Solution: 'chicken-install -purge' 'chicken-install (your egg here) -v'
;; Source: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2019-07/msg00010.html