Guile 2.2 on MSYS2 + MinGW

[Matthew Keeter]

I’m dipping my toe into the tarpit of making a native Windows build for Guile 2.2,

using msys2 (http://www.msys2.org/).  My efforts are here:

    https://github.com/mkeeter/guile-mingw

So far, I’ve adapted or created a handful of patches, and have successfully

built guile.exe.  The build is failing after this point, when it tries to build the

documentation (?):

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/mkeeter/guile/src/build-x86_64-w64-mingw32/libguile'

  GEN      guile-procedures.texi

Backtrace:

           0 (primitive-load-path "C:/msys64/home/mkeeter/guile/src/▒")

ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:

ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path: Unable to find file "C:/msys64/home/mkeeter/guile/src/build-x86_64-w64-mingw32/libguile/C:/msys64/home/mkeeter/guile/src/build-x86_64-w64-mingw32/meta/guild" in load path

Does anyone have tips for why primitive-load-path would be failing like this?

Thanks,

Matt

p.s.  I’d prefer to focus on one issue at a time, but in case you’re wondering, the guile.exe

that it has built is… eccentric.  To get anywhere, I have to run it with auto-compilation turned off,

and even then, it’s non-functional:

address@hidden MINGW64 ~/guile/src/build-x86_64-w64-mingw32

$ GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0 ./meta/build-env guile

GNU Guile 2.2.0

Copyright (C) 1995-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Guile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `,show w'.

This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it

under certain conditions; type `,show c' for details.

Enter `,help' for help.

scheme@(guile-user)> (+ 1 2)

While compiling _expression_:

ERROR: In procedure bytevector-u64-set!: Value out of range: -149659645