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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2022 21:22:37 -0600
> Cc: Arash Esbati <arash@gnu.org>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Eli 
> Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 
>       Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
> 
> As an interesting aside:  I see that it *is* loading the natively
> compiled sources that were build and packaged with Emacs.  This is
> despite getting a nil return from `native-comp-avialable-p', which
> suggests that even people without a local libgccjit+gcc (e.g. a
> working MSYS) can benefit from (the bundled) nativly compiled sources
> we distribute.  [[stroking chin myscheviously]]

This is the expected behavior.  Only native-compilation of *.el files
for which no *.eln files are provided is disabled without libgccjit
and Binutils installation.  Loading of existing *.eln files doesn't
need libgccjit.

So I'm not sure why you are surprised.