Re: Build failure on MS-Windows

[Dmitry Gutov]

Dani Moncayo <address@hidden> writes:
>>> I've just tried to build from scratch the last trunk version of Emacs
>>> on MS-Windows, but the build fails here:
>>
>> What does it mean "from scratch" in this case?
>
> It means "starting with the bzr source code, without generated files", i.e.:
> 1. cd <source tree>.
> 2. bzr pull
> 3. ./autogen.sh.
> 4. cd <build tree>.
> 5. rm -fr *
> 6. CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1 -I/c/usr/include' CFLAGS='-O0 -g3'
> $source_dir/nt/msysconfig.sh --prefix=$prefix --enable-checking
> 7. make
>
> The above is done by a shell script which I've successfully used for some 
> weeks.
>
>> I bootstrapped
>> yesterday and I've built several times today with no trouble
>> whatsoever.
>
> Perhaps the mistake is mine, but I don't know what is.

You need to 'make bootstrap', not just 'make'.