Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2021 14:39:50 +0000
> 
> At the moment, the compilation process only runs successfully when run
> from an mingw64 shell

What does that mean, exactly?  Isn't libgccjit being invoked by Emacs
itself? then how does the shell, any shell, enter the picture?

> The error I am getting is this:
> 
> Compiling 
> c:/msys64/home/Administrator/emacs-upload/emacs-28.0.50-snapshot-feature_native-comp-windows-2021-02-04/share/emacs/28.0.50/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el...
> compiling to 
> c:/Users/Administrator/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/eln-cache/28.0.50-14889799/cl-lib-8b938900-d1df28b7.eln
> x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-10.2.0: fatal error: cannot execute 'as': 
> CreateProcess: No such file or directory
> compilation terminated.

Why do you see the "x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-10.2.0" thing? are you
cross-building Emacs or something?

> I've tried putting as.exe manually into the package but that isn't
> enough. as.exe doesn't seem to have any dll dependencies itself.

Is as.exe on PATH?  If not, where is it?