Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Loreno Heer]

I did and if I understand it correctly they basically say that they did
some change but it is now up to emacs to change the build behavior:

https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/14573#issuecomment-1364532147

On 24.12.2022 07:36, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 22:45:22 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Loreno Heer <helohe@bluewin.ch>
>>
>> I got it to build by manually setting
>>
>> #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0601
>>
>> in the emacs config.h file.
>> Not sure why but this variable seems to have the (wrong) value of 0x0603
>> on my system (Windows 7 ESR). I don't know if this is a variable that
>> emacs build defines somewhere or the msys build system.
> 
> Emacs doesn't set _WIN32_WINNT to this value anywhere.  (And anyway, I
> don't see how setting it to a higher value could do any harm, when
> 0x0601 does work.)
> 
> So please take this up with the MinGW64/MSYS2 developers, because it
> sounds like some problem with their system headers.  I don't see any
> evidence here that there's something wrong in Emacs which causes this
> problem.  Especially since it started happening lately, and happens
> with older Emacs versions as well, where no changes have been done.