Re: [h-e-w] Building win CVS emacs

[Harald Maier]

"Dave Footitt" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello, 
>  
> Anyone any experience with building Emacs from CVS?  I'm running Win XP
> Pro, and have both Cygwin and Mingw installed (although from reading the
> docs the latter isn't necessary).

You only should use the make executable from mingw. The problem that
is described in the emacs/nt/INSTALL file is a make processing
problem.

>  
> I'm not sure in which environment I should build, cygwin bash or dos?
> Is there a difference, and which configure do I run?  The standard
> "configure" or "configure.bat"

I am using the following:

./configure.bat --with-gcc --no-opt \
    --without-xpm --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif

Harald