On Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at 02:10:25 PM PDT, Thompson, David <dthomps...@worcester.edu> wrote:
... >> Janneke has also poked at Windows support a few times as well, and >> he actually got it to run on 64-bit Windows. >Did JIT work? When I tried this years ago it didn't. Would be a major >victory if it works now. There were patches that made it compile, but, I don't think it ever properly worked. I always build without JIT. I haven't tried to build with JIT in a while. ... > I'm obviously not a maintainer but I do want to be vocal in my support > for a good Windows story. Despite how much I personally do not want > to use Windows, I do want users who do to be able to run my software. Same. ... > WSL is cool and all, but personally I want to ship native Windows > stuff that "just works" as much as possible. I'm not sure what the > graphics story is like on WSL these days, but in the past dealing with > X11 compatibility and GPUs was not easy, or so I've heard. So for me, > I'd really like to see the MinGW build work acceptably (threads, JIT, > etc.) Building with MSVC would be even better but I'll take what I > can get. :) I just get jealous whenever I look at some new language > implementation (or just some other Scheme) and see that it can do > native Windows, Linux, and MacOS builds. I have seen guile-gi launch a program on MinGW using MinGW's Gtk libraries. I have no benchmarks. I did attempt a build with MSVC (which is a nightmare because you have to run autoconf in MSYS and use a batch script to translate gcc flags into cl flags). It looked pretty bad: so many compilation errors. I think you'd have to fix all of gnulib and then pull all of gnulib into Guile, haha. -Mike
