On Sat, 2026-02-28 at 14:39 -0500, Olivier Dion wrote: > For example, I see a lot of patches for Windows recently, but I have > never used Guile myself on Windows. I need to know more about this > topic to help better.
Let me maybe try to explain since some of this originates from LilyPond: For a long time, we were stuck with Guile 1.8 for a number of reasons. When we were eventually able to move to Guile 2.2 (entirely skipping Guile 2.0), the last missing piece were the official binaries which are also provided for Windows. The use case is not really "using Guile" directly, but rather embedded as the "workhorse behind the scenes". For Guile 2.2 only very few patches were needed for cross-compilation to Windows, but then Guile 3.0 changed everything again. When working to fix this, the goal was always to upstream the needed changes so it's great to finally have this merged. The last really important change missing is https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/pulls/86 and then I believe most things should work for us with an eventual release of 3.0.12 🙂 Jonas
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