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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: wingo@pobox.com, guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted!
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:57:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737e945ul.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bmsyy8t6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:10:45 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:

>> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
>> Cc: wingo@pobox.com,  guix-devel@gnu.org,  guile-user@gnu.org
>> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:04:52 +0100
>> 
>> I think Andy was referring to the possibility of cross-compiling
>> packages that use Guile to MinGW.  That is already possible thanks to
>> the work of Jan Jan Nieuwenhuizen, and since yesterday, we can create
>> “packs” that contain binaries cross-compiled for MinGW:
>> 
>>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00525.html
>
> I'm saying that when cross-compiling, it's easy to produce binaries
> that are unusable on Windows because Guile is not run natively during
> the build, and so problems inherent to the Windows port are not
> revealed during the build.

Right; that would be a bug in Guile’s build system.  Is pthread support
detection broken when cross-compiling to MinGW?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-19 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-16 18:25 guix is the guildhall that we always wanted! Andy Wingo
2017-03-16 19:26 ` Amirouche Boubekki
2017-03-17  8:23   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-18  0:10     ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2017-03-16 22:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-03-16 22:24   ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17  9:01     ` Florian Paul Schmidt
2017-03-17  9:45       ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 11:24       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17  6:51   ` Marko Rauhamaa
2017-03-17  8:30   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 13:54     ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-03-17 14:26       ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-18 14:00         ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 11:30 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-17 12:32   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-17 17:39     ` Pjotr Prins
2017-03-17 18:16       ` Mike Gran
2017-03-17 13:22   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-18 14:04     ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-03-18 14:10       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-03-19 15:57         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-03-19 16:22           ` Eli Zaretskii

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