> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:15:33 +0300 > From: Vladimir Zhbanov <vzhba...@gmail.com> > > The stable-2.0 guile branch contains changes that some of our users > (that is, users of gEDA/gaf) have been waiting for years, especially > after guile 2.0 became necessary to build our package. I mean those > users who have been waiting for Windows support. (Some of them insist on > moving to using Python instead of Guile these days, since they have been > tired trying to cross-compile with guile-2.0 support.) A while ago I was > eventually able to build our toolkit using only one patch for guile [1] > (almost one-liner, in essence), and several work-around patches for some > of our programs, which can be found at [2] and are actually the same > code blocks (declaring an array and doing its initialisation). I don't > know why the latter patches work (geda-gaf with guile 1.8 worked without > them), however, I am sure the issue is in guile 2.0, though I cannot > even found the culprit by bisecting (because of too many changes in both > guile and geda-gaf repositories). Having said all that, I'd like to see > at least the patch [1] committed before the next guile release in order > to have guile cross-compilation for windows working. Are there any > chances for that?
Just so you and your users know: there's a 32-bit MinGW build of Guile 2.0.x here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/guile-2.0.11-2-w32-bin.zip/download
