Re: Implementing Guile with a Windows port

[David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>]

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Le Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:32:23 +0300,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> a écrit :

> > From: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2021 20:10:15 +0200
> > 
> > I can't speak for the developers, but as far as I can tell, there
> > isn't the right combination of willingness and resources to support
> > a native port of GNU Guile for MS Windows.
> > 
> > As far as I know, there's a MinGW port, but if I'm not mistaken
> > it's partly neglected and not as feature-rich as the "normal"
> > GNU/Linux version.  
> 
> A MinGW port of Guile 2.0.11 can be found on the ezwinports site.
> AFAIK, the only feature it omits is threads, because Guile built with
> threads is broken on MS-Windows.

Fwiw, when I need to, I use msys2:

	https://www.msys2.org/

	https://packages.msys2.org/search?t=binpkg&q=guile
	=>
		Package		Version	
		guile		2.2.7-1	
		libguile		2.2.7-1	
		libguile-devel	2.2.7-1

Not sure it has all 'native' features, but it has threads.

hth,
David

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