Re: [Bug-guile-ncurses] Building guile-ncurses on MS-Windows using MinGW

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:30:11 -0700
> From: Mike Gran <address@hidden>
> 
> Thanks so much for your detailed report. I'll see what I can do
> to incorporate these suggestions.

Thank you, looking forward for it.

> But, it is my understanding that Guile's ability to run on MinGW
> is quite broken.

It took me some time to build it successfully, but I succeeded
eventually.  Many (but not all) of the changes I needed to build it
are already committed to the stable branch of Guile and in gnulib.

> Are you using some HEAD or snapshot?

I've built the 2.0.11 release; never tried HEAD or snapshot.

> If so, can you point me to a tarball that I can compile on MinGW to
> do this update?

You can find both sources (already patched, with the patches shown in
the DIFFS file), and the precompiled binaries here:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/?source=navbar

What you see there is a 32-bit build, so if you want a 64-bit build,
you'd need to patch the sources and build it yourself (and probably
struggle with more problems ;-).