Re: FYI: w32 Guile (hardly alpha)

[Lars J. Aas]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 03:45:33PM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
: Hi Lars,
: 
: All the patches for windows that you've been sending had me wondering,
: because we've made sure that guile-1.4 compiled on cygwin-1.1.4.
: 
: I just assumed that you were trying to do a new port.  But now I read:
: 
: > `\' dirseparators and paths containing driveletters, so I don't know
: > how successful this executable will be on non-Cygwin systems.
: 
: Are you compiling on cygwin?  We've been routinely (cross-)compiling guile
: for cygwin.  It's been mentioned here as well as on the cygwin mailing list.

Well, it is a new port as far as I know.  The build systems has installed
cygwin just for the shell (to run configure/libtool) and GNU make.
Compilation is done with the Visual C++ command-line compiler.  The final
executable should run on systems without the Cygwin runtime environment.
It runs fine on the build system (Cygwin), but since I haven't tried it on
a system without Cygwin yet I added that remark - haven't investigated if
plain Windows supports `/' dir separators yet, but I think it actually does.

  Lars J