Ditto gnucash on windows does include guile 2.2 but it's a major pain point to get it to build.
https://code.gnucash.org/logs/2020/07/16.html#T20:20:40 On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, 3:24 pm Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide, <arne_...@web.de> wrote: > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > <rant> > > Sadly, Guile seems to care only about one OS: GNU/Linux, and more or > > less disregard the rest. Features are added that clearly cannot > > easily work on other OSes, let alone non-Posix ones, and with each > > such new feature producing a working MinGW port becomes harder and > > harder, even for experienced hackers. > > This is one of the biggest worries I have with the time I put into > Guile: Many of my friends are still on Windows and in the current state > of Guile I won’t be able to create tools that help them. > > Creating installers for Windows was bad with Python, it is much worse > with Guile. I wish I could just do something like > guild package --target windows -o my-program.exe entry-point.scm > > This prevents people from using Guile for anything that might have to be > cross-platform (though the Lilypond folks got it working > https://lilypond.org/windows.de.html). > > > Please don't bother replying to this rant, it's just FYI, to convey my > > personal recollections and experiences from doing the 2.0.x port, and > > I don't intend to argue about it. > > </rant> > > I replied, because I did not intend to argue but rather support your > point. While Guile is easiest to use on GNU Linux, a Windows port is a > hard requirement if we want Guile to be useful as a platform for writing > programs. There is GTK for Windows and it would be nice if we could > actually script it from Guile: > https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows/ > > Best wishes, > Arne > -- > Unpolitisch sein > heißt politisch sein > ohne es zu merken >
