Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <address@hidden>
> Cc: Juan José García-Ripoll
>  <address@hidden>,
>   address@hidden
> Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 13:59:40 +0100
> 
> >> Just a side note: the build-zips.sh script that makes the Windows
> >> distribution files always uses the flag -static when building emacs.
> >
> > I don't think the build should use that.  It is certainly not the
> > default.
> 
> IIRC, without this the no-deps version fails, because of a requirement
> for libwinpthreads.

We should try building Emacs so that it isn't dependent on
libwinpthreads.  (Mine isn't, but I'm using a different MinGW flavor.)