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

[H. Dieter Wilhelm]

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>>> Cc: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  Phillip
>>>  Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>,  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>>> Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 18:17:50 +0100
>>> 
>>> Hello Chad
>>> 
>>> could you please give a minimal setup to test the jansson library for
>>> the language server protocol?  Is it enough to create a json file, setq
>>> a default server address and search for function names? :-)
>>
>> I'm not Chad, but what's wrong with test/src/json-tests.el?
>
>
> The only thing to be ware of here is if you are running
> test/src/json-tests.el that you are running them using just the files in
> the Emacs package that you are testing. If you run them using the
> makefile from inside an msys2 shell, then are likely to be getting the
> dependencies from the msys2 shell.
>
> That's why I added w32-feature.el to etc/ so that it ends up in the
> install version. Clearly it makes no sense to replicate everything from
> json-tests.el in w32-feature.el. But there needs to be something to make
> sure that Emacs is using only it's packaged dependencies.

Thanks for w32-feature.el just ran your tests successfully with the
latest build of Corwin.  Now I'll have a look on json-tests.el.

Please tell me why you didn't put w32-feature.el in the test/src/
folder?

--
        Dieter