Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> skribis: >> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) >> Cc: wi...@pobox.com, guix-de...@gnu.org, guile-user@gnu.org >> Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:04:52 +0100 >> >> I think Andy was referring to the possibility of cross-compiling >> packages that use Guile to MinGW. That is already possible thanks to >> the work of Jan Jan Nieuwenhuizen, and since yesterday, we can create >> “packs” that contain binaries cross-compiled for MinGW: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-03/msg00525.html > > I'm saying that when cross-compiling, it's easy to produce binaries > that are unusable on Windows because Guile is not run natively during > the build, and so problems inherent to the Windows port are not > revealed during the build.
Right; that would be a bug in Guile’s build system. Is pthread support detection broken when cross-compiling to MinGW? Thanks, Ludo’.
