From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [EXT] relocatable guile on windows
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 08:55:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfbxAN5skrcYWonc-GphYtd6A5_VnYVp6ebBCSrHNX6ztA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y4wKd+C/l5TL0biF@spikycactus.com>
Hi Mike,
On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 9:49 PM Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Guile,
>
> The Lisp Game Jam was a few weeks ago, and in prep, I took a stab an
> making Guile work better on Windows, using MinGW MSys64 UCRT64 for
> compilation. Little did I imagine that it would take a couple months
> to make something servicable, so I never got around to actually making
> a game.
>
> This Guile is a fork with a lot of hacks for Windows: lack of
> POSIX shell, DLL nonsense, Windows filesystem instead of FHS,
> yadda yadda yadda. The biggest hack is that of making
> all the file paths relative to the guile executable, so that
> it can be distributed as a single zip file or MSIX install file.
I haven't had a chance to try this out yet but I wanted to say that
this is great work! I'd really like to have a good story to tell for
shipping games built with Guile and Chickadee on Windows. In the past
I've tried to cross-compile Guile for Windows from Linux and made it
as far as getting Guile 3 to boot, but the JIT didn't work and I think
threads, though enabled, were broken. I haven't used Windows for
development in over 10 years so I'm somewhat helpless when things go
wrong.
It would be really great if we could organize a bit around upstreaming
patches for proper Windows support and come up with some documentation
with official recommendations for how to build for Windows. I never
know what the best approach is: cygwin? mingw? native build (more work
than the other two)? A lot of other Scheme implementations run on
Windows, so Guile should, too.
- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-07 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Y4wKd+C/l5TL0biF.ref@spikycactus.com>
2022-12-04 2:48 ` relocatable guile on windows Mike Gran
2022-12-04 10:29 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-12-04 11:24 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2022-12-04 11:10 ` Vivien Kraus
2022-12-07 13:55 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2022-12-08 16:41 ` [EXT] " Mike Gran
2022-12-08 5:56 ` Janneke Nieuwenhuizen
2022-12-08 15:58 ` Mike Gran
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