Hello Guix! After all this time I’m happy to report that I’ve finally merged MinGW cross-compilation support, woohoo!
So we should now be able to do: guix build --target=i686-w64-mingw32 guile to cross-compile Guile to MinGW. Hydra will build the cross-compilation toolchain and some example packages. I didn’t merge the cross-libtool patch and this one: Jan Nieuwenhuizen <jann...@gnu.org> skribis: > * gnu/packages/ncurses.scm (ncurses)[MINGW]: Build with libtool, as > recommended; enables dlopen'ing. I’m not sure what this means (and the explanation should be as a comment in the code). Could you explain a bit more? The idea of Libtool is normally to bundle it in the package tarball. That ncurses can optionally take an externally-provided Libtool is weird and I’d rather avoid relying on that if possible. Adding a new cross-compilation target is a commitment. So I hope you and others will make sure it remains functional and useful! I also think that together with Manolis and everyone else who’s played with cross-compilation, we must clean up the mess that this has become. ;-) Namely, we must more clearly separate target-specific things and also separate build-side from host-side code (in cross-base.scm). Suggestions and hacks welcome! Thanks, Ludo’.
