Re: No Guile on Windows? (was: My Guile Hacker Handbook)

[Christopher Lam]

Gnucash 4.0 in windows is successfully using libguile-2.2-1.dll from MSYS2.

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 at 06:32, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:48:35 -0300
> > From: David Pirotte <david@altosw.be>
> > Cc: Dmitry Alexandrov <dag@gnui.org>, guile-user@gnu.org,
> help-guix@gnu.org
> >
> > fwiw, i've used msys2 (not so much anymore, but i still would if i had
> > to ...), easy to install, update, well maintained, very friendly on irc
> > when i needed to ask for help ...:
> >
> >       https://www.msys2.org/
> >
> > it has guile-2.2.7-1, threaded (which I've used. it works ...)
>
> AFAIU, that's not a native Windows port, that's an MSYS2 port, which
> is almost the same as a Cygwin build (MSYS2 is a fork of Cygwin).
>
> IOW, you cannot link the MSYS2 libguile with a native MinGW program,
> such as GDB or Gnu Make (or Lilypond, or any other application
> mentioned in this thread).  Right?
>
>