Olivier Dion writes: Hi!
> On Wed, 08 Apr 2026, Mike Gran <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all- >> >> guile-container-test is set of scripts that builds Guile with WINE a Docker >> container. >> The Docker container is based off of Debian. >> The primary motivation was to provide a way to test the MinGW UCRT build >> using more free software. >> >> MinGW is one of the sundry ways people compile software on Microsoft's OS. >> MinGW64 UCRT is a specific flavor of MinGW that provides a thin wrapper >> around Microsoft's 64-bit UCRT C library and its Win32 API layer. >> >> This container-based build tool uses WINE, a Windows emulation environment, >> instead of the Microsoft OS. While WINE is free software, the UCRT C library >> is not. >> >> You can find it at github.com/spk121/guile-container-test > > This is great and will hopefully help us to avoid regression on Windows > once we get it to work. Do you think this could be package for Guix? > It would be nice if I could just do: > > $ guix build --with-git-url=guile-mingw64=./guile guile-mingw64 > > and not worry about docker and such. Isn't this what I tried to address in <https://codeberg.org/guile/guile/pulls/90> Greetings, Janneke -- Reasonable | Free Software for Correctness | Dezyne -- https://dezyne.org +Sourcery+ | Correctness for Free Software | https://reasonable-sourcery.coop
