Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Jerram
"carlo.bramix" writes: > Hello! Hi Carlo! > Unfortunately, the network is one of the common problems when > porting. It could be resoved with some work and with some "tricks" if > someone wants. Indeed. I know that I have patches pending for this. I also wonder if the MinGW Guile port at the

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Linas Vepstas writes: > My pet peeve with mingw is the lack of ready-to-go regex. This is completely > unrelated to guile; I have another project that made the mistake of assuming > that regex "just worked" on windows, and I've been bitched at ever > since. Gnulib has a regex library. > Getting

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Peter Brett writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> I've been making gradual progress on MinGW cross building, but I've >> reached a point where I'm no longer sure that this is worthwhile. This >> email explains why, and invites comments from anyone interested in this >> - especially from anyone who

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Neil Jerram
Ken Raeburn writes: > Yes... you then also need to decide if Guile is exposing GNU/POSIX > functionality, whatever the native OS functionality is, or some > abstraction... Ideally, yes, I think. In other words, I think it's preferable if Guile provides the same function to applications on all p

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Ken Raeburn writes: > One nagging concern I've got about my Guile-Emacs project is the > seemingly narrow focus of active Guile developers as far as platforms > are concerned. I'm one of, what, two or three people testing the > development versions on Mac OS X now and then, and most of the rest

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi! On Mon 22 Mar 2010 02:28, Ken Raeburn writes: > I think cross-compilation and cross-testing is a good thing to be able > to do. Totally agreed. I'd like to start compiling Guile for ARM devices now. > Perhaps having build farms available with multiple platform types can > help there. Ther

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Linas Vepstas
On 22 March 2010 14:00, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Peter (& Neil & co), > > On Mon 22 Mar 2010 09:10, Peter Brett writes: >> >> We get people coming to the gEDA user mailing list on a regular basis >> saying, "Where can I find a version of gEDA for Windows?" and the >> Windows builds we've put out ha

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi Peter (& Neil & co), On Mon 22 Mar 2010 09:10, Peter Brett writes: > Neil Jerram writes: > >> I've been making gradual progress on MinGW cross building, but I've >> reached a point where I'm no longer sure that this is worthwhile. This >> email explains why, and invites comments from anyone

Re:Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread carlo.bramix
Hello, I just wanted to report that I built GUILE 1.9.9 successfully on cygwin. Some remarks: 1- I could not find libunistring, libffi and libgc into cygwin repository, so you will need to build these libraries yourself too. Let's hope they will be included too one day... 2- I received a strange

Re: Reconsideration of MinGW work

2010-03-22 Thread Peter Brett
Neil Jerram writes: > I've been making gradual progress on MinGW cross building, but I've > reached a point where I'm no longer sure that this is worthwhile. This > email explains why, and invites comments from anyone interested in this > - especially from anyone who is really trying to use Guil