Re: Anyone built Emacs with gcc-3.3?

[Pascal Obry]

Dhruva,

 > I had sent an email to the list:
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 > I had tried building GNU Emacs with GCC 3.3 and had encountered a
 > problem which I have raised as a bug in GCC bugzilla(#9816).
 > I tried again using a newer port of GCC 3.3 and GCC 3.4 (not an official
 > port though) from:
 > http://www.thisiscool.com/gcc33_mingw.htm
 > 
 > I am unable to build or even progress to get an emacs.exe (executable).
 > With the earlier port of GCC 3.3, I could build a bare emacs executable
 > which failed in compiling elisp files.
 > If someone has a link to a GCC 3.3 port on W2K (Win32/MinGW), please let
 > me know. I will try to do some extensive testing. Unfortunately, I do not
 > have the older GCC 3.3 port with me now!
 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >  As the problem is happening on Windows 2000 (W2K) platform, I feel it is
 >  not releted to 
 > unexec and specific to ELF. On W2K, I am not sure it uses 'ld' for
 > linking. So, modifications to 'ld' may not be the cause.

'ld' is used on Windows.

Pascal.

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