Re: guile-1.8/mingw bootstrap problem

[Cesar Strauss <cestrauss@gmail.com>]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> "Maciek Godek" <pstrychuj@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> recently I've compiled guile on mingw32, but I can't
>> get it running. When I try to do so, I get the following error:
>>
>> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
>> ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
>>
>> and the program exits
>>
>> boot-9.scm is located in
>> /usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9
> 
> You can help Guile by setting the `GUILE_LOAD_PATH' environment variable
> to `/usr/share/guile/1.8/'.  Then you can start Guile and look at the
> value of the `%load-path' variable so see what paths it contains in
> addition to this one.
> 

Alternatively, when configuring, give the prefix in Windows format, i.e.
./configure --prefix=c:/msys/1.0

or equivalently
./configure --prefix=`cd /usr && pwd -W`

While the MSYS build environment provides a POSIX emulation layer useful 
for running configure scripts and makefiles, the mingw version of guile 
is a native Windows application that has no notion of MSYS-specific 
paths like /usr.

Regards,
Cesar