Massimiliano Gubinelli <m.gubine...@gmail.com> writes: > I just noted on the guile mailing list that having Guile-2 on Windows > seems a bit tricky. So we should take this into account when we will > shift to it (if we do it).
The complete thread starts here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2020-07/msg00110.html The gist: The Guile maintainers generally assume some things that are provided/fulfilled by POSIX, but not by Windows (per se). Especially 64bit and threads are a (huge) problem. However, that does not apply when running with a POSIX emulation layer (Cygwin, MSYS2) or with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). Cygwin has the latest Guile (3.0.4) on x86-64, probably with threads / without any limitations. And seemingly all previous Guiles. I did not find a web package list for, e.g., WSL2 Ubuntu, but I strongly suspect the situation is similar. MSYS2 does not have Guile 3, yet. But it is unlikely that it will not. As far as I understand www.texmacs.org/tmweb/help/faq.en.html, Cygwin may already be required to run TeXmacs on Windows. Is that the case? Possible downsides of depending on Cygwin, MSYS, and/or WSL2: * Maybe Cygwin introduces a performance penalty? (Probably no big deal.) Somewhere I read that WSL2 in some cases is even faster than native Linux, whatever that exactly means. (Even more likely no big deal.) * There may be slight nuisances for a Windows user: Using emulated POSIX paths. Having to press the button in Windows 10 that activates WSL2 and installs a WSL2 distribution. Or having to install Cygwin or MSYS2. (But that should all be a breeze and clearly explainable on one page.) * Qt somehow should be used in such a way that it is not required to run an X Server. I.e. it probably should use the view on the filesystem as Cygwin/MSYS2/WSL2 does, but nonetheless use the usual Qt-on-Windows graphics and input methods. It is not unlikely that that already is solved in the TeXmacs source, at least for Qt4. Is that the case? _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
