From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com>
Cc: andrewgoh95@yahoo.com.sg, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Implementing Guile with a Windows port
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:32:23 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h7dqrqvc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6cd51d23-ec1b-bcf6-0255-ed09cd14a025@gmail.com> (message from Taylan Kammer on Sat, 9 Oct 2021 20:10:15 +0200)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-09 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-10-09 12:01 ` Implementing Guile with a Windows port Andrew Goh
2021-10-09 18:10 ` Taylan Kammer
2021-10-09 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-10-10 1:02 ` David Pirotte
2021-10-10 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-10 16:25 ` Jonas Hahnfeld via Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library
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