Re: GNU Guile 3.0.9rc1 available for testing!

[Thompson, David]

Hi Ludo,

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 10:58 AM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Please report any issues you may find.  I’m particularly interested in
> portability regressions (NetBSD and other BSDs, macOS, MinGW, as well as
> architectures other than x86_64).

I was curious about the MinGW build, so I used a Guix command you
shared to build it:

guix build guile-next --with-git-url=guile-next=$HOME/Code/guile
--with-branch=guile-next=main --target=x86_64-w64-mingw32

I then copied the resulting /gnu/store directory somewhere writable,
copied over all the DLLs (libgc, libunistring, etc.) it needed from
/gnu/store into the 'bin' directory, and tried running with wine64 but
it failed:

```
$ guix shell wine64 -- wine64 guile.exe
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl
dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0

0084:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0084:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0084:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
0084:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005
Mingw-w64 runtime failure:
32 bit pseudo relocation at 0000000140001568 out of range, targeting
0000000319370E80, yielding the value 00000001D936F914.

abnormal program termination
```

Maybe someone else would like to give it a shot? Or even try running
it on Windows?  I hadn't tried in years, but my last experience with a
Guile MinGW build required either disabling threads and JIT or trying
to apply various patches people had floating around. So, to see a
build complete with just the upstream source and without disabling
anything is very promising!

Thanks for all the hard work on the release!

- Dave