I've ran into the same issue on windows using msys2 and made the same mistake. The path passed to configure must be a classic windows path with the drive letter and colon like "C:". The path separators can be forward or back slashes though. You can also run into problems in your code when opening files using an absolute path obtained from msys2 (as a commandline argument for example). I use the procedure below to sanitize any paths that could come from outside my code. I have not seen the segfault issue, but I discovered the problem when loading/including code and didn't try compiling anything before it was fixed.
;; if running in msys and bash passed in a /c/... absolute path;; instead of C:/ then patch if so gambit can open the path(define (patch-mingw-path path) (let* ((path path) (stype (system-type)) (mingw (and (or (memq 'mingw32 stype) (memq 'mingw64 stype)) #t)) (mingw-prefix (and (eq? (string-ref path 0) #/) (eq? (string-ref path 1) #\c) (eq? (string-ref path 2) #/)))) (if (and mingw mingw-prefix) (begin (string-set! path 0 #\C) (string-set! path 1 #:))) path))
Regards,Bob
On Monday, October 10, 2016 10:01 PM, Marc Feeley feeley@iro.umontreal.ca wrote:
This is just a guess… I haven’t tried it… but the --prefix should use the Windows path (i.e. --prefix=C:\opt\gambit\bld) because on Windows, even with mingw, the Gambit runtime will call the WIN32 CreateFile function to open files and it expects a Windows path.
I don’t understand why gsc would segfault however. Do you have more details? Can you try with gdb?
Marc
On Oct 10, 2016, at 8:57 PM, Bill Six billsix@gmail.com wrote:
I'm unable to figure out how to use Gambit on Windows successfully, and I'd like some help. (I'm plenty comfortable with Gambit on Linux/OSX). My general feeling is that I'm using configure's "prefix" argument incorrectly on Windows, which may be causing my problem.
I can build gambit just fine using the msys2 environment with mingw64 as the compiler.
(Here's the head of config.log "$ ./configure --prefix=/c/opt/gambit/bld --enable-single-host --enable-gcc-opts")
I can do basic stuff in gsi, such as
(+ 1 2)
3
But the following doesn't work:
(include "~~/lib/_gambit#.scm")
*** ERROR IN (console)@2.1 -- Can't open file "\c\opt\gambit\bld\lib/_gambit#.scm"
and I can't get "gsc -exe foo.scm" (for some trivial foo.scm) to not segfault.
Any ideas?
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