Unstable development, guile 1.8 and gcc 4.5.2

[Geert Janssens]

On dinsdag 22 maart 2011, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> Geert,
> 
> you say "the updated gcc can't build the stable branch on Windows".  What
> is the problem?
> 
guile 1.6 won't build with gcc 4.x. I don't remember the exact details, but I 
do remember I couldn't figure out how to fix this after several attempts and a 
lot of googling.

Apart from that, there was a problem with libofx 0.8.2 for which I had 
provided a patch. The patch is obsolete though, because in the meantime, the 
Windows build has moved on to libofx 0.9 which builds just fine.

And then you have slib that starts acting weirdly when guile is built with gcc 
4.5.2, although that may also be guile 1.8 on windows specific and not really 
gcc related.

> I don't have the details handy, but I am experimenting with a different gcc
> build (tdm gcc http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/) which seems more up-to-date
> than mingw.  I am trying to build webkit/gtk for win32 from source using
> instructions I found on-line
> (http://opensourcepack.blogspot.com/2011/01/building-webkitgtk-on-windows.h
> tml). No success yet as I'm still working on a common build environment for
> webkit and gnucash.
> 
Can webkit be built with mingw's gcc 4.5.2 ? Or are there other build 
environment parts that are not sufficiently up to date ?

Geert