Re: Guile 64-bit Windows support, redux

"Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <[email protected]> Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:10:06 +0200

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Jonas Hahnfeld <[email protected]> writes:

> On Mon, 2025-08-25 at 21:03 +0200, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote:
>> Liliypond just had a release again, and it would be great if we could
>> get Guile to a point that Lilypond does not have to patch it anymore for
>> their Windows-releases.
>
> We're patching since a long time, but yes it would be great if there
> was an upstream release that "just worked" (tm) on 64-bit Windows.

I hope we’ll get there. It’s been my wish for several years now and is
the reason why I got push-access on the savannah repo of Guile.

>> Are there any regressions caused by the Lilypond patches?
>
> The refactoring patches should be relatively safe and, as far as I can
> remember, the actual changes only take effect if sizeof(long) <
> sizeof(void *), which is effectively only the case for 64-bit Windows.

That sounds good.

@Mike: would it be OK for you if I first created a PR for these so that
you’d base your changes on top of them?

Best wishes,
Arne
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