Re: guile-1.8/mingw bootstrap problem

[Cesar Strauss]

Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> "Maciek Godek" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > recently I've compiled guile on mingw32, but I can't
> > get it running. When I try to do so, I get the following error:
> >
> > ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
> > ERROR: Unable to find file "ice-9/boot-9.scm" in load path
> >
> > and the program exits
> >
> > boot-9.scm is located in
> > /usr/share/guile/1.8/ice-9
>
> You can help Guile by setting the `GUILE_LOAD_PATH' environment variable
> to `/usr/share/guile/1.8/'.  Then you can start Guile and look at the
> value of the `%load-path' variable so see what paths it contains in
> addition to this one.

Alternatively, when configuring, give the prefix in Windows format, i.e.
./configure --prefix=c:/msys/1.0

or equivalently
./configure --prefix=`cd /usr && pwd -W`

While the MSYS build environment provides a POSIX emulation layer useful 
for running configure scripts and makefiles, the mingw version of guile 
is a native Windows application that has no notion of MSYS-specific 
paths like /usr.

Regards,
Cesar