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by i_don_t_know 721 days ago
I don't know if this is useful to you. I haven't tried to install MIT Scheme directly on macOS. Instead, I'm using the sample project at [1] to run a linux VM with Fedora on macOS x86-64. I was able to install MIT Scheme and scmutils on the VM by following the instructions at [2][3][4][5] for CentOS. It appears to have succeeded but I haven't really worked with the system yet.

I haven't tried the instructions for ARM-based macOS at [6] because I'm still on Intel.

It's less convenient to run a VM than to run on macOS directly. But I prefer to sandbox "random" software that way, and some things support linux better than macOS.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

[2] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/

[3] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/installation....

[4] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/mechanics-sys...

[5] https://www.gnu.org/software/mit-scheme/documentation/stable...

[6] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6946/mechanics-sys...

(You have to install texinfo for the online documentation part of [5]. Skip the 'install-pdf' documentation target if you don't want to depend on tex/latex.)

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Does `brew install mit-scheme` work? The homebrew formula says : https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/8c0bb91eea9c8... :

  # Does not build: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64611
  deprecate! date: "2023-11-20", because: :does_not_build
Podman runs Linux containers in a VM in QEMU on MacOS. https://podman.io/docs/installation