Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!

[Chris Lott]

address@hidden <address@hidden> spake thusly:

> "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.

Right. The big installation package rather than individual packages.

> 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...


That may be what the file says, but it failed repeatedly. Didn't work for
me... I had to revert to 3.77 which worked fine.

c