From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: libguile on Windows Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:37:23 +0100 Message-ID: <87y84zptng.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> References: <00d001c5cdf1$9b8404a0$6b01a8c0@DORIAN> <87k6glrleo.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> <00e301c5cdf5$02aa3d40$6b01a8c0@DORIAN> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129070575 6967 80.91.229.2 (11 Oct 2005 22:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Guile Users Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 12 00:42:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPSoX-0007LM-Oq for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 00:41:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPSoX-00067H-5z for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:41:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPSl8-0002vP-Eu for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EPSl6-0002tL-Jy for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:38:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EPSl6-0002st-02 for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.84.72.33] (helo=mail3.uklinux.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EPSl6-00008I-3R for guile-user@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:38:08 -0400 Original-Received: from laruns (host81-130-96-186.in-addr.btopenworld.com [81.130.96.186]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AC3A409FCC; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:38:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from laruns (laruns [127.0.0.1]) by laruns (Postfix) with ESMTP id B11566F71C; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 23:37:23 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "Dylan Nicholson" In-Reply-To: <00e301c5cdf5$02aa3d40$6b01a8c0@DORIAN> (Dylan Nicholson's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:47:44 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:4836 Archived-At: "Dylan Nicholson" writes: > Would there be place or purpose to make publically available a version > of libguile intended for compiling under MSVC? As far as the core Guile distribution is concerned, I think it depends on whether there is any practical difference between an MSVC-compiled libguile DLL and one produced by the MinGW cross-compiler. (This is something I don't understand yet.) If there isn't, the fact that (AFAIU) the MinGW approach already works would make it difficult to justify maintaining an MSVC build approach in the core distribution. (Of course someone could maintain an MSVC build independently.) > The only part I'd really like to fix is the snarfing part - it can *in > principle* be done automatically, although I'm not exactly sure if the > dependencies would function 100% reliably. > Even if it's just a static snapshot of 1.6.5 until someone else can be > bothered to come along and maintain it, there would surely at least be > one or two other weirdos like me out there that prefer to work with MS > products than GNU tools... Even if you are going to compile using MSVC, the most practical way (that I'm aware of) to do the snarfing is to do a partial build under Cygwin first. So GNU tools will always be involved, I think. Regards, Neil _______________________________________________ Guile-user mailing list Guile-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-user