gEDA-dev: Re: Native windows cross-compile with mingw32

[Peter Clifton]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:08 -0300, Cesar Strauss wrote:
> Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > Hi PeterC,
> > 
> >> I've managed to bend guile-1.6.8 into compiling (just), and have started
> >> on libgeda.
> > 
> > I've heard rumors that guile-1.8.x are easier to build under mingw.
> > 
> 
> You need the CVS version. Last time I checked (01/04/2007), the
> "branch_release-1-8" branch in CVS built out-of-the-box on MinGW. The
> latest stable version (1.8.1) did not contain the necessary changes.

Ok, I was working with 1.6.x to ensure compatibility with Gschem. If
1.8.x works in Mingw, it might be worth me swapping, and mopping up any
remaining bugs.

I realise with 1.6.x at least, I'd need to work around / fix
"(popen ...)" and / or "(primitive-fork ...)", I wonder if they've got a
more portable way in 1.8.x... will check later in the week.

Thanks,

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Peter Clifton

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