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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: dsmich@roadrunner.com
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 05:44:53 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gf9gogq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130825232417.TCPTK.135132.root@cdptpa-web34-z02>

> Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:24:17 -0400
> From:  <dsmich@roadrunner.com>
> Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
> 
> On windows, I think you call GetModuleFileName() with the handle that was passed to DllMain().
> Is it possible for libguile to do that?

I see no reasons why not.

> Seems like most windows apps install everything into their own subtree.  The main application is not even on the system PATH!

That's not true.  On my machine, there's a single Posix-like tree
rooted at d:/usr, with everything below it.

Many (most?) installers will install the shared libraries into a
single system directory (e.g., C:/WINDOWS/system32), unless you
override the installation defaults, something the majority of users
won't do.

> On a POSIXy system, there are shared places for config files, libraries, documentation, and so on.  It's just different.  I don't see why we would need to be "relocatable" here.

One reason to be "relocatable" is to be able to easily run
applications from the build or source tree, while a different version
is installed on the system.



  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-26  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-22 20:25 guile-2.0 on mingw: the sequel Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-23  6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23  9:29   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-23 10:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23 20:14       ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-24  6:31         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-24  8:05           ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-25 15:26             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 16:59               ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 17:47                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:03                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-25 19:34                   ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-27 21:51                   ` Panicz Maciej Godek
2013-08-26 13:28                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-23 15:13     ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-23 15:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 18:59         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-08-25 21:19           ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26  2:35           ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 19:50         ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 19:56           ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 20:33             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 20:40               ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 21:42               ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-25 23:24                 ` dsmich
2013-08-26  2:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-26  5:56                     ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26  6:26                       ` Mark H Weaver
2013-08-26 13:10                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-26  2:40                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-25 20:32           ` Eli Zaretskii

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