Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Phillip Lord]

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 9:58 AM H. Dieter Wilhelm
> <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>>
>> Currently we have 19 DLLs in the /bin folder (28.0.91), whereas 27.2 has
>> 77 DLLs!  Corwin could you please check your build configuration, maybe
>> together with Phil?  (I'm sorry, I'm still of no help here.)
>
> Excellent observation.
>
> I hope Phil will chime-in with suggestions of what I may have
> missed/broken.  I'll investigate also, obviously, and others'
> kibitzing most welcome too.


Strange. What are the differences?


>
> Meanwhile, I suggest we should solve this problem before pushing
> 28.0.1 to the apha FTP site.  I don't want people to have different
> expectations (needing to install MSYS) vs 27.1 and the pre-releases
> Phillip created for that.
>
> (Phil, is "Phil" fine? Preference for "Philip"?  I obsess on the oddest 
> things.)


"Phil" is my usual. "Phillip" is my actually full name. "Philip" is an
alternative spelling but is not my name.

There's a story behind this, but this is probably not the place.

Phil