Re: Compiling Emacs 23.1.92 on Windows fails

[Christoph]

Eli,

Yes, that turned out to be the problem.

Using mingw32-make instead of cygwin's make worked and built successfully.

Thanks,
Christoph

On 2/20/2010 9:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:46:37 -0700
> > From: Christoph<address@hidden>
> >
> > I have been trying to compile Emacs Pretest 23.1.92 on Windows 7
> > (cygwin, MinGW, GnuWin32) but haven't had any luck.
> >
> > I run
> >
> > configure.bat --no-debug --with-gcc --without-png -cflags
> > -IC:\Progra~2\GnuWin32\include
> >
> > then
> >
> > make bootstrap
> >      
> If you are building the pretest, you don't need to bootstrap, just
> type "make" after the configure step.
>
> If that doesn't help, I suspect that your combination of Cygwin and
> MinGW tools does not work to build the native port of Emacs (see
> nt/INSTALL for some combinations that are known to work).  E.g., it
> looks like your Make is a Cygwin port, which is known to fail.  It is
> best to use only MinGW tools for the build.
>