Hello,
after an hard work I was able to get an almost working build of the most recent guile.
In the attached patch there are some little fixes and a bigger one, an almost complete and working implementation of posix mmap()/munmap() for Windows: this will allow you a single source code to be easily modified for both POSIX and WIN32 solutions.
This code has been also tested separately and I have not found any problem.
This patch corrects the most urgent problem but it is not enough for compiling guile completely working.
I found some difficult problems that I corrected with some hacks into the source and, obviously, not included in the attached patch.




libguile/dynl.c and libguile/foreing.c generate an error like this one:

../../guile-1.9.8/libguile/dynl.c:304: error: for each function it appears in.)
../../guile-1.9.8/libguile/dynl.c: In function 'scm_dynamic_args_call':
../../guile-1.9.8/libguile/dynl.c:334: error: 'SCM_FOREIGN_TYPE_void' undeclared
 (first use in this function)
make[3]: *** [dynl.lo] Error 1

This problem happens because the Windows includes declare the VOID macro to be an alias of void.
One line of code explains it better:

#define VOID    void

So, when combining with ## operator, SCM_FOREIGN_TYPE_ + VOID does not creates SCM_FOREIGN_TYPE_VOID but SCM_FOREIGN_TYPE_void.
There was no much that I could do to avoid this, except adding an "#undef VOID" after all inclusions.



After that, I got this error.

libtool: link: gcc -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wundef -Wswitch-enum -fvisibility=hidden -Ic:/mingw/include -g -O2 -o .libs/guile_filter_doc_snarfage.exe c-tokenize.o  -Lc:/mingw/lib /mingw/lib/libgc.dll.a /mingw/lib/libatomic_ops.dll.a /mingw/lib/libregex.dll.a /mingw/lib/libunistring.dll.a /mingw/lib/libiconv.dll.a -lcrypt -lws2_32 /mingw/lib/libltdl.dll.a -L/mingw/lib
c-tokenize.o: In function `yyalloc':
C:\msys\1.0\home\Carlo\guile\libguile/<stdout>:2177: undefined reference to `rpl_malloc'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It seems to me that there is a missing libguile.la dependency.
I'm not sure where it would be better to touch, so I hacked generated Makefile without touching Makefile.am yet.
Anyways, adding libguile.la solved the trouble.




Finally, when all things seemed to work correctly, I got this message when compiling.

make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Carlo/guile/module'
GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0                                    \
        ../meta/uninstalled-env                 \
        guile-tools compile -Wunbound-variable -Warity-mismatch -o "ice-9/eval.g
o" "../../guile-1.9.8/module/ice-9/eval.scm"
ERROR: In procedure delete-file:
ERROR: Permission denied
make[2]: *** [ice-9/eval.go] Error 1

Actually, this just means to me that there is at least one file descriptor still open and valid when _unlink() function is called.
It could be a plain file handle or a memory mapped object.
Have you some suggestions to give me for testing this?




I hope all this will be useful.

Sincerely,

Carlo Bramini.