Re: MinGW Sources, was: Windows Binaries Release

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2021 22:27:22 +0000
> Cc: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> The problem is that because we are making a build from a completely
> unbuilt branch at this point we do a de novo build of everything,
> including all the el->elc byte compilation (and some elc->eln for the
> preloads). It takes time -- about 4-5 hours for a 64 and 32 bit build
> (IIRC, we have ditched the i686 build now, but still).

Unless the VM where you build this is extremely slow and/or
resource-depleted, it should take much less than several hours.  I'd
expect less than 30 minutes, probably even 15 or 20, assuming you use
"make -j8" or more.