Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Please note that MinGW-w64 and MSYS2 (which includes MINGW-packages) are
>> different projects. MSYS2 builds, packages and distributes MinGW-w64.
>> MSYS2 decided to bump _WIN32_WINNT in our build scripts, which has
>> implications for Emacs (see below) but that's independent of what
>> MinGW-w64 actually, officially supports.
>
> So what are the details?  Which versions of Windows does MSYS2
> support, 

Since about 1 week ago, the minimum requirement is Windows 8.1. Hardware
requirements were also recently upgraded. A CPU from 2007 onwards should
be fine:

https://www.msys2.org/news/#2022-10-18-new-minimum-hardware-requirements-cpus-from-20067

> and which ones does MinGW64 support?

AFAIK nothing changed for MinGW-w64. I don't know about their planning,
though.

> And if MinGW64 is about
> to drop Windows versions older than 8.1 soon, when will that happen?

See above. Please note that Mingw-w64 alone is useless, you need to
configure your toolchain to use it. MSYS2 provides toolchains ready to
use. Plus, requirements such as libwinpthreads, which are also
maintained by Mingw-w64, might have their own requirements (AFAIK
nothing changed yet.)

> I'm asking because I want to update our documentation with this
> information, to avoid other users being surprised by these subtle
> issues.

I would say that for using an MSYS2-based build of Emacs you need
Windows 8.1 at the least. A more future-proof statement is to recommend
looking up that information on the MSYS2 web page.