Re: Upcoming 1.6.5 release

[Neil Jerram]

It might be worth trying to integrate the minor code changes and 
instructions that I've worked out for building using MS Visual C on Windows.

However,

- as I understand it, this would need a DOS build script that is 
independent of the existing configure stuff

- I'm worried that I may be misunderstanding the benefit of building 
using MS Visual C, and should be focussing on building with MINGW instead.

On the second point, can anyone comment whether there is any practical 
difference between a Guile DLL built with MSVC and one built with MINGW? 
 The two points that seem useful to me from MSVC-building are (i) 
direct use of the MS C runtime; (ii) MSVC debugging information.  But it 
may be that MINGW could give me these as well.

Regards,
     Neil