From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Implementing Guile with a Windows port Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:32:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83h7dqrqvc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <1994873807.737861.1633780908082.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1994873807.737861.1633780908082@mail.yahoo.com> <6cd51d23-ec1b-bcf6-0255-ed09cd14a025@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19078"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrewgoh95@yahoo.com.sg, guile-devel@gnu.org To: Taylan Kammer Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 09 20:32:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZH9U-0004jf-EJ for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 20:32:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35234 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZH9P-0002WV-Ty for guile-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:32:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49402) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZH9G-0002WK-G8 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:32988) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZH9F-0006W3-UU; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3547 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZH9F-0007Jw-DW; Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:32:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <6cd51d23-ec1b-bcf6-0255-ed09cd14a025@gmail.com> (message from Taylan Kammer on Sat, 9 Oct 2021 20:10:15 +0200) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.devel:20902 Archived-At: > From: Taylan Kammer > 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.