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Subject: Re: guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel
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> From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
> Cc: dsmich@roadrunner.com,  guile-user@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 01:56:19 -0400
> 
> Okay, again: How exactly do you suggest we determine the location of the
> libguile installation from an arbitrary executable that links to it?

Like this:

  Step 1: provide an API for the executable to tell that; failing that
  Step 2: look in ../share relative to the executable's argv[0]; finally
  Step 3: fall back on the default recorded at build time

Step 2 will have a Windows wrinkle, whereby we can look in ..share
relative to where Guile's shared library lives.