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From: | Harald . Maier . BW |
Subject: | Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake! |
Date: | Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:15:39 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i386-mingw-nt5.0.2195) |
"Chris Lott" <address@hidden> writes: > Then I installed the single file MingW executable into C:\mingw and > ran it to install the mingw tools to c:/mingw/bin I don't understand. What is the MingW executable? Do you mean the zipball (self extracting archive) that contains the mingw executables. > I put c:\mingw\bin into my path and restarted my bash shell to read > the new path > > I tried building at this point, but it failed because the Gnu make > that comes comes Cygwin has problems with the emacs source. So I > found a version on the web (it took two tries: I finally found a > 3.77 on the web-- 3.75 and 3.80 failed) that was already compiled > and dropped it into the c:\mingw\bin as gmake.exe If you unpack the archive then the directory c:\mingw\bin should contain the _mingw_ make program. This make program works fine with DOS filenames. >From the emacs/nt/INSTALL file: mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1: okay okay > Success! I then started it using my usual shortcut and everything works fine > with my old configuration... Great! Harald
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