Re: Guile 64-bit Windows support, redux

Jonas Hahnfeld via "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:36:46 +0200

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On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 20:21 +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
> "Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Mike Gran <[email protected]> writes:
> > 
> > > So I'm still plugging away at this Guile on Windows stuff.
> …
> > > I haven't pushed anything back to the main Guile git repo 
> > > savannah yet, because I don't want y'all to see me flailing around.
> > 
> > Thank you for keeping up the work!
> 
> Did you move forward in the meantime?
> 
> It would be really cool to have good support on Windows again and to
> reduce the amount of patching necessary for Lilypond.

I would like to point out that the patches currently used by LilyPond
are still floating around, they are now nearing their second birthday:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2023-10/msg00051.html
AFAICT there still has not been a single comment on the approach taken
and whether it might be more suitable than heavily patching mini-gmp...

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