From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: guix is the guildhall that we always wanted! Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 16:57:22 +0100 Message-ID: <8737e945ul.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zigl3wph.fsf@pobox.com> <87a88kf8cu.fsf@gnu.org> <83d1dgyr5e.fsf@gnu.org> <87bmsy65q3.fsf@gnu.org> <83bmsyy8t6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52827) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpdD2-0004Jr-Oi for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:57:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cpdD1-00037Z-QQ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2017 11:57:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83bmsyy8t6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 18 Mar 2017 16:10:45 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: wingo@pobox.com, guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org Eli Zaretskii skribis: >> From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) >> Cc: wingo@pobox.com, guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:04:52 +0100 >>=20 >> 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 >> =E2=80=9Cpacks=E2=80=9D that contain binaries cross-compiled for MinGW: >>=20 >> 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=E2=80=99s build system. Is pthread sup= port detection broken when cross-compiling to MinGW? Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.