Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:49:44 +0000
> 
> > Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say
> > "MSYS").  In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native
> > Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead,
> > and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one
> > mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs.
> 
> How do you tell the difference between the two?

The native ports have "mingw" in their package names.

> Are the ones in the Emacs windows download native?

Yes, of course.  You cannot link a native Windows build of Emacs
against MSYS libraries, you'd get unresolved externals because the
MSYS DLL is not present on the link command line.