chicken (1) Linux Manual Page
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 .