Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-27 Thread Christopher Lam
My mistake: gnucash uses MinGW-w64. The gnucash lead developer has a few patches to successfully compile guile on MinGW-w64. It would be great if these patches were taken upstream and a CI pipeline enabled for testing. Otherwise gnucash for windows will always need to catch up, and is at severe ri

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-25 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Never heard about it. I will try it and maybe update the Windows section ;-) Thank you David Jérémy Le 25 juillet 2020 05:48:35 GMT+02:00, David Pirotte a écrit : >Hello, > >> > > ### On Windows >> > > No solution yet. > >fwiw, i've used msys2 (not so much anymore, but i still would if i had

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Christopher Lam > Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:56:28 + > Cc: guile-user , help-guix@gnu.org > > Gnucash 4.0 in windows is successfully using libguile-2.2-1.dll from MSYS2. Is Gnucash a MinGW build or an MSYS2 build? If the latter, it's expected.

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-25 Thread Christopher Lam
Gnucash 4.0 in windows is successfully using libguile-2.2-1.dll from MSYS2. On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 06:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:48:35 -0300 > > From: David Pirotte > > Cc: Dmitry Alexandrov , guile-u...@gnu.org, > help-guix@gnu.org > > > > fwiw, i've used msys2 (not

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:48:35 -0300 > From: David Pirotte > Cc: Dmitry Alexandrov , guile-u...@gnu.org, help-guix@gnu.org > > fwiw, i've used msys2 (not so much anymore, but i still would if i had > to ...), easy to install, update, well maintained, very friendly on irc > when i needed to ask

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-24 Thread David Pirotte
Hello, > > > ### On Windows > > > No solution yet. fwiw, i've used msys2 (not so much anymore, but i still would if i had to ...), easy to install, update, well maintained, very friendly on irc when i needed to ask for help ...: https://www.msys2.org/ it has guile-2.2.7-1, threaded (w

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-24 Thread Stefan Israelsson Tampe
I just want to say that I use guile on windows regularly. And it was easy peasy to enable it. The trick is to install the Linux subsystem for windows 10 and hack on. I know this is not always an option, just to remind you where the future is. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 2:07 AM Dmitry Alexandrov wrot

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-24 Thread Christopher Lam
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, wrote: > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > > Sadly, Guile seems to care only about one OS

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-24 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Dmitry Alexandrov > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 03:06:53 +0300 > Cc: Guile User , Guix Help > > > ## Installation > > > ### On Windows > > > > No solution yet. > > Is that true? Itʼs true (and a pity) that there no official packages, of > course, but ‘no solution’? > > I vaguely recall,

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-24 Thread Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
Eli Zaretskii writes: > > 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

Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-23 Thread divoplade
Hello, Le vendredi 24 juillet 2020 à 03:06 +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov a écrit : > Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > > https://jeko.frama.io > > ## Installation > > ### On Windows > > > > No solution yet. > > Is that true? Itʼs true (and a pity) that there no official > packages, of course, but ‘n

Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-23 Thread Bonface M. K.
Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski writes: > Le jeudi 23 juillet 2020 à 13:32 +0300, Bonface M. K. a écrit : >> I am that person ;) > > Please leave me your feedback on anything ! > Cool. I'll do that over the weekend or early next week :) > Jérémy > -- Bonface M. K. (https://www.bonfacemunyoki.com) One

No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-23 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski wrote: > https://jeko.frama.io > ## Installation > ### On Windows > > No solution yet. Is that true? Itʼs true (and a pity) that there no official packages, of course, but ‘no solution’? I vaguely recall, there was a Guile on MinGW a couple of years ago, does it no l

Re: a French mailing list (was: test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook))

2020-07-23 Thread Marc Chantreux
hello, > FWIW, the help-guix@gnu.org list, which you are crossposting, announce > [1] a policy of welcoming mail in many languages besides English, > which looks like a pretty sane choice, until there is substantial > traffic in a given language. thanks for letting us know. i'll definitely use th

Re: a French mailing list (was: test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook))

2020-07-23 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Marc Chantreux wrote: > hould be nice to have a french mailing list [for Guile] as well FWIW, the help-guix@gnu.org list, which you are crossposting, announce [1] a policy of welcoming mail in many languages besides English, which looks like a pretty sane choice, until there is substantial traf

Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-23 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Le jeudi 23 juillet 2020 à 13:32 +0300, Bonface M. K. a écrit : > I am that person ;) Please leave me your feedback on anything ! Jérémy

Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-23 Thread Bonface M. K.
Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski writes: > Hello hackers ! > > I would liko to introduce my (almost started) book to you : > https://jeko.frama.io > Thanks for sharing! > It aims to provide a tutorial-like way to learn Guile. But also to get > used to tests. > > As I am not an experienced Guile hacker,

Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-23 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Hi Zelphir ! > The handbook looks great visually. I like the artwork, which is also > used on the Guile website. It looks inviting to get going with > coding. The artwork used is not meant to stay as is but it does the job right now. (Sirgazil, hope you don't mind...) I have to custom the code h

Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-23 Thread Zelphir Kaltstahl
Hi Jérémy! The handbook looks great visually. I like the artwork, which is also used on the Guile website. It looks inviting to get going with coding. As for the website itself, how did you create it on the backend side? Ah I just saw the link to the repo! Default language seems to be French, whi

test anything? (Re: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

2020-07-22 Thread Marc Chantreux
hello, > I would liko to introduce my (almost started) book to you : > https://jeko.frama.io a french guile documentation is very welcome (should be nice to have a french mailing list as well). > Hope it can help someone to jump in and hack. i just discovered srfi 64 thanks to your page. the th

My Guile Hacker Handbook

2020-07-22 Thread Jérémy Korwin-Zmijowski
Hello hackers ! I would liko to introduce my (almost started) book to you : https://jeko.frama.io It aims to provide a tutorial-like way to learn Guile. But also to get used to tests. As I am not an experienced Guile hacker, the book will emerge accordingly to my Guile journey haha. Hope it ca