Re: Building guile for Win32

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

NQ <address@hidden> writes:

> All I need is the *.dll *.lib and *.h files, but I can't for my life manage
> to build them!
> It's all in the makefiles, and it's so easy on Linux, but I've had a
> absolutely horrible time trying to read the makefiles in Windows with MingW
> and also MSVC. I just can't get it to work.

The makefiles are automatically generated by GNU Automake and then
`config.status', so they are not meant to be human-readable (the
`Makefile.am' files are the human-readable source).

At any rate, Guile should normally build with MinGW, but I don't think
it builds with MSVC currently.  The build procedure with MinGW is as
under GNU/Linux (or other Unices), namely:

  ./configure && make && make install

Note that `make' must be GNU Make, not MSVC's `make'.

Could you report the exact error messages (or the `config.log' file)
that you're getting when following this procedure?

Thanks,
Ludovic.