Re: Guile 1.4 / Cygwin / TeXmacs

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Hallo Marciano,

Am 2002-03-07 um 03:37 schriebst du:

> Hi,

> I am trying to get TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) to run under Win32 using the 
> CygWin tools and XFree86/Cygwin32. TeXmacs uses Guile as its scripting 
> language.

> Here's the problem. I compiled Guile 1.4, and everything seems fine---at 
> least in the sense that the command-line REPL works, and the tortoise 
> tutorials work as advertised.

> TeXmacs (0.3.5.14, the latest version) compiles, but, as soon as it invokes 
> gh_enter, I get an "ERROR: Stack Overflow" message, and the program aborts. 
> Joris (the program author) has increased the stack size to (I believe) 
> 1000000, and indeed the same sources apparently work flawlessly on a "true" 
> Unix platform.

The default stack size with cygwin is 2MB.  I have problems with perl here too.
Try to increase the stack size, I use 8MB for Perl now.


> Thus, could it be that there is some weird interaction between Guile and 
> CygWin32? Could it be a gcc/win32 bug? Could it be that TeXmacs is written 
> in C++ (probably not)? Has anybody had any experience with Guile under 
> CygWin? Is there any more extensive test I could run? SOrry for the many 
> questions...


Gerrit
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