Re: No Guile on Windows?

[Stefan Israelsson Tampe]

I use guile all the time at my windows 10 machine at work (WSL) to handle
xml files. Used apt to get it.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:01 PM Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> skribis:
>
> > <rant>
> > Sadly, Guile seems to care only about one OS: GNU/Linux, and more or
>
> Guile is software so it’s doesn’t care one way or the other ;-), but
> it’s true that the maintainers and probably most contributors are
> primarily concerned with GNU/Linux.
>
> However, my understanding is that Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has
> the potential to make all of us happy.  For example, here’s info from
> someone who got Guix to run on Windows/WSL2:
>
>   https://gist.github.com/giuliano108/49ec5bd0a9339db98535bc793ceb5ab4
>
> Running Guile alone should be easier.  Notably, I would expect a bundle
> created with ‘guix pack guile’ to Just Work on Windows.
>
> Does anyone have experience with that?
>
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.
>
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