From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "objc" Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.user Subject: Re: Guile portability? Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:18:09 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1316714626.3129.38.camel@psmith-ubeta> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316719109 3590 80.91.229.12 (22 Sep 2011 19:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:18:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Original-X-From: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 22 21:18:25 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-user@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R6omu-00011T-TP for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:18:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45906 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6omr-0002zK-7Z for guile-user@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:18:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52800) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6omn-0002yy-Hp for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:18:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6omm-0004OX-8L for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:18:17 -0400 Original-Received: from snt0-omc4-s36.snt0.hotmail.com ([65.55.90.239]:61108) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R6omm-0004Nf-22 for guile-user@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:18:16 -0400 Original-Received: from SNT127-DS21 ([65.55.90.199]) by snt0-omc4-s36.snt0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:18:14 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [86.147.224.207] X-Originating-Email: [objcjohn@hotmail.com] In-Reply-To: <1316714626.3129.38.camel@psmith-ubeta> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2011 19:18:14.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[600D53A0:01CC795C] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-Received-From: 65.55.90.239 X-BeenThere: guile-user@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: General Guile related discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: guile-user-bounces+guile-user=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.user:8824 Archived-At: Hi Paul, On the Microsoft Windows front, it builds if you use cygwin (for the POSIX) stuff. The README file with the guile distribution gives you info. on how to build it on different systems. John. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Paul Smith" Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:03 PM To: Subject: Guile portability? > I can't find any statements on the Guile pages about portability: what > operating systems does it support, how well are they supported, etc.? > > Before I started using Guile I naively assumed it was basically just a > parser and so it was almost trivially very portable. Now that I see all > the advanced features and capabilities it strikes me that Guile is not > nearly so easily ported to non-POSIX-style systems as I assumed. > > The docs say it's "the official language for the GNU operating system", > but what about non-GNU OS's, such as AIX/Solaris/HP-UX, the various > BSD's, or Windows, or MacOS, or even more specialized environments like > OpenVMS, AmigaOS, etc.? > > > Cheers! > > >