Re: guile-gi: In procedure dynamic-link: file: "libguile-gi", message: "file not found"

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 06:15:28PM -0500, sirgazil wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying out guile-gi 0.2.2 on the Guix System by running the empty window 
>> example in https://spk121.github.io/guile-gi/Empty-Window.html#Empty-Window, 
>> but I get the following error:
>
> There is a known problem with 0.2.2 of Guix because of Guix's handling
> of Guile binary extension directory searching.  There was a patch in master
> to fix it.
>
> I had wanted to wait until I scrubbed the docs to push a new release,
> but, I could push one out pretty quickly to pick up those bug fixes.
>
> If you want a workaround in the meantime, try setting the
> GUILE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS_PATH environment variable to the directory
> into which libguile-gi.so was installed.

I just fixed the guile-gi package in Guix with commit
a431a63537c8103b2a58c9a55d90184fb5c90361.

The editor example worked fine.

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Ricardo