Re: Guile 64-bit Windows support, redux

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Aug 2025 10:27:01 +0200

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Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes:

> 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...

@Mike: could we as concrete way forward first merge those patches and
       switch to your approach later? Better become better now and
       perfect later than staying bad until we can be perfect.

       Are there points in the patches that are absolute show-stoppers?

Best wishes,
Arne
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