Re: [External] : emacs-28 windows binaries available from alpha

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Cc: corwin@bru.st,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  drew.adams@oracle.com,  akrl@sdf.org
> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2022 17:49:31 +0100
> 
> "Touched" and loaded strings.elc.
> 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 uidg1626 Domain Users 34051 Feb  5 10:04 strings.el
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 uidg1626 Domain Users 22756 Feb  5 16:54 strings.elc
> 
> But it seems that string.el wasn't compiled, I can't see it in
> *Asysnc-native-compile-log* neither in eln-cache!?

I cannot reproduce this.  How exactly did you load strings.elc?

> >> Does this mean that Emacs - by default - is only natively compiling .el
> >> files which are from Emacs' tree and (M)elpa packages?
> >
> > No.  Emacs should natively compile any .el file when its .elc file is
> > loaded, provided that (a) the .el file can be found, and (b) the .el
> > file is older than the .elc file.
> 
> Might it work when the .el files are in PATH or in Emacs' tree?

No, it has nothing to do with PATH or the Emacs tree.