From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Interest in windows native port, interpreters for other languages and C++ binding API. Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 17:29:57 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgtrw8lm.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1485876914 13029 195.159.176.226 (31 Jan 2017 15:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 15:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Germ=C3=A1n?= Diago Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 31 16:35:09 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaSa-0003AA-Tp for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:35:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39031 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaSf-00083g-S7 for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:35:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaNz-0004Lp-GH for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:30:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaNu-0004S9-Kc for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:30:23 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaNu-0004S5-HO; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4902 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1cYaNt-0001En-JK; Tue, 31 Jan 2017 10:30:18 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from =?utf-8?Q?Germ=C3=A1n?= Diago on Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:28:50 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "guile-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:18877 Archived-At: > From: Germán Diago > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:28:50 +0700 > > 2. Windows works under POSIX. What would be the effort of doing a port to native windows threads? Effort in > man-hours? I've built native Windows port of Guile 2.0.x, you can find the binaries here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ However, building Guile with threads (using pthreads) on Windows produces a broken binary which cannot even compile the *.scm files as part of the build: it crashes a lot. I don't know what causes this, but I reported the details a few years ago, and you should be able to find them in the archives. The binaries whose URL is above are compiled without threads. > 3. Is there any interest in switching to meson build system? I think that it works very well already and supports > windows much better than autotools. Not my place to answer that, but let me just say that I didn't have any problems using the present autotools-based build system on Windows with MSYS. The absolute majority of the problems I needed to solve while working on the port had nothing to do with autotools, but with various non-portable and Posix-centric stuff in the Guile sources (most of them were fixed since then using the patches I proposed).