> From: Germán Diago <germandi...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 11:28:50 +0700 > > 2. Windows works under POSIX. What would be the effort of doing a port to > native windows threads? Effort in > man-hours?
I've built native Windows port of Guile 2.0.x, you can find the binaries here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ However, building Guile with threads (using pthreads) on Windows produces a broken binary which cannot even compile the *.scm files as part of the build: it crashes a lot. I don't know what causes this, but I reported the details a few years ago, and you should be able to find them in the archives. The binaries whose URL is above are compiled without threads. > 3. Is there any interest in switching to meson build system? I think that it > works very well already and supports > windows much better than autotools. Not my place to answer that, but let me just say that I didn't have any problems using the present autotools-based build system on Windows with MSYS. The absolute majority of the problems I needed to solve while working on the port had nothing to do with autotools, but with various non-portable and Posix-centric stuff in the Guile sources (most of them were fixed since then using the patches I proposed).
