> From: l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 12:30:57 +0100 > Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, guile-u...@gnu.org > > > Open questions would be, what about other targets like macOS or Windows > > or whatever? There I don't know. I suspect that if Guix becomes > > popular enough, someone will make a thing whereby you can cross-compile > > to macOS from GNU/Linux at least. I know you can do that already with > > MinGW. As for native "guildhall" operation on these targets, I don't > > know. But I think that is a cost that people will pay for in time. > > We could surely create cross-compiled packs for MinGW, though I suspect > a number of packages do not support cross-compilation.
The MinGW build doesn't support multithreading in Guile, so any such cross-compiled packages should be aware of that. Also, there are some Posix functionality not supported, like primitive-fork, so if Guix uses that, those parts won't work.
