Dear all, I forward a message by Philippe, which did not make it to the list for some reason
----------------------------------------------------- Right, Guile in Windows is a real headhache. I have been searching for people who have compiled Guile 2/3 on windows (I mean MinGW). AFAICT Guile 2.2 can be patched to compile, but I saw no mention at all of Guile 3 for windows. An alternative could be to use Cygwin (or midipix.org if that ever becomes viable) but I never tried and I am not sure how "native" such builds would feel... Also, if we choose to stick to Guile, we should be aware that mingw cannot compile it to 64 bits (The main reason is an assumption on the length of pointers). This is true for Guile1.8, 2.2 and would presumably be for v 3.x too. And who knows how long the 32bit mingw toolchain will be maintained in the future... Moreover, Guile 1.8 has other issues: - no utf-8 environment variables. If I'm not mistaken this presently forbids having a TEXMACS_USER_PATH with arbitrary unicode characters in windows. In principle that could be fixed using the nowide library as I did for TeXmacs, but that's some work (and presumably a lot of testing). - bugs (e.g. CVE-2016-8605) or toolchain changes that break Guile building every now and then, and which less and less people outside of TeXmacs devs are interested in fixing. I mention this just to be sure that we have the complete picture in mind when the scheme interpreter is chosen. Best, Philippe _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
