How to build guile on Windows through MSYS2?

#1

I have tried different repositories:

  1. https://github.com/texmacs/guile (install dep and run as guide, could not compile)
/bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link gcc -I/mingw32/include  -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -I/mingw32/include   -o guile.exe guile-guile.o libguile.la -lregex -lgmp -lws2_32 -lm -lltdl
libtool: link: gcc -I/mingw32/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -I/mingw32/include -o .libs/guile.exe guile-guile.o  ./.libs/libguile.a -L/mingw32/lib -lintl -lregex -lgmp -lws2_32 -lltdl
C:/msys64/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: guile-guile.o: in function `inner_main':
C:\msys64\home\Me\guile-1.8.8\libguile/guile.c:53: undefined reference to `_imp__scm_shell'
C:/msys64/mingw32/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/10.2.0/../../../../i686-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe: guile-guile.o: in function `main':
C:\msys64\home\Me\guile-1.8.8\libguile/guile.c:63: undefined reference to `_imp__scm_boot_guile'
  1. https://github.com/slowphil/mingw-w64-guile1.8 (segmentation fault, disable warning in PKGBUILD file)

With the latest MSYS2, I either couldn’t compile it successfully, or I compile successfully but the binary reports segmentation fault.

Would appreciate anyone to shed some lights on this :slight_smile:

#2

MXE is a better solution to build TeXmacs.

I do not have time to write a guide on it until this Sunday.

#3

We need anyway to provide a way for people on Windows to compile within the OS. I will try to look at this as soon as I have some time. There is an SDK provided with TeXmacs and one can try to use also older versions of Guile, e.g. Guile 1.6, it should also work.

#4

Here you can find development environments for various systems including MSYS2:

ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/dev/SDK

#5

I fixed my sdk installer. It can build the latest svn of TeXmacs in the latest msys2/mingw environment. AFAICT guile1.8 also builds fine in that environment after fixing the issue reported the first post (but the build process for TeXmacs normally pulls a pre-built binary).

Note that I had to make copies of msys2 packages that were removed from the msys2 repo, most notably qt4.

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