pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) transcribed 3.1K bytes:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 02:35:16PM -0800, Matt Wette wrote:
> > > By the way, what I forgot to mention is that I needed to replace
> > > 
> > > #include <stdlib.h>
> > > 
> > > in the gettext-po.h header file by
> > > 
> > > typedef long size_t;
> > > 
> > > otherwise “guild compile-ffi gettext-po.ffi” would fail with the error
> > > message
> > > 
> > > ffi-help: WARNING: the FFI helper is experimental
> > > (unknown):1: not found: "gnu/stubs-32.h"
> > > compile-ffi: parse failed
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > The FH compiler executed gcc to find all the hidden include directories.  If you don't have gcc
> > in your path (you didn't seem to have guile in your path) then it won't find those directories.
> > You can add `-I path-to-gcc-inc-dirs' arg to your path or make make sure "gcc" is in your path.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> 
> Thank you for the tip with the -I option.
> 
> Hmm I’ve since destroyed the Parabola operating system and
> switched to GuixSD.  It still happens when I run
> 
> $ guild compile-ffi -I /gnu/store/0jjgg2bk6qmx87sdksm7bd2b3z10yd6j-gettext-0.19.8.1/include -I /gnu/store/n6nvxlk2j8ysffjh3jphn1k5silnakh6-glibc-2.25/include gettext-po.ffi
> ffi-help: WARNING: the FFI helper is experimental
> (unknown):1: not found: "gnu/stubs-32.h"
> compile-ffi: parse failed
> 
> A gnu/stubs-64.h exists though.
> 
> Apparently I need to install the 32-bit version of glibc in
> order for it to work.  I tried
> 
> $ guix build -s i686-linux glibc
> […]
> @ build-succeeded /gnu/store/g7fj77yfv1m4xilfqxvzggm5kd20i10z-glibc-2.25.drv -
> /gnu/store/km57wad98gyghrbj8pwydcscsh9y4n4d-glibc-2.25-debug
> /gnu/store/n0nvyn4lbcawfdbmd0blydrsp5wll75n-glibc-2.25
> 
> Now
> $ guild compile-ffi -I /gnu/store/0jjgg2bk6qmx87sdksm7bd2b3z10yd6j-gettext-0.19.8.1/include -I /gnu/store/n0nvyn4lbcawfdbmd0blydrsp5wll75n-glibc-2.25/include gettext-po.ffi
> ffi-help: WARNING: the FFI helper is experimental
> wrote `gettext-po.scm'
> 
> worked with the original header file.
> 
> (
> 
> Removing /usr/bin/gcc leads to a
> different error message:
> 
> $ guild compile-ffi gettext-po.scm
> /bin/sh: gcc: command not found
> […]
> 
> )

Solution: You don't install gcc on Guix. You install gcc-toolchain.
I suspect that you have 'gcc' 'glibc' etc installed via
guix package --install gcc glibc
in your profile. That's not how it works on Guix.

> Regards,
> Florian
> 



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