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Re: 64-bit Guile on Windows
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Jan Nieuwenhuizen |
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Re: 64-bit Guile on Windows |
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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 19:28:49 +0200 |
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Thomas Thiriez via General Guile related discussions writes:
Hello,
> I am currently porting a macOS application to Windows, and need to
> have libguile working.
[..]
> I tried building Guile 3, but had more success with Guile 2.2, so I will
> keep that version.
There is a 64-bit port on the wip-mingw branch
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/log/?h=wip-mingw
but that is based on guile-3.0.8.
> I believe this has something to do with the fact that, on that
> platform, we have:
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> sizeof(SCM) == 8
> sizeof(long) == 4
Yes, indeed.
> Is there something to do about that problem? Is there something I can
> do to have a working 64-bit Guile on Windows?
It shouldn't be too much work to backport the fixes to guile-2.2.
Greetings,
Janneke
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