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

[Robinows]

In a message dated 10/9/2002 5:31:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, address@hidden writes:

> >Which version of gmake are you using? My experience was, the >README/INSTALL
> >notwithstanding, that the make that comes with MingW didn't work. Nor did
> >Cygwin's of course. I reverted to 3.77 which I found as part 
> >of another
> >package on the web, did a make clean and started over and it 
> >worked fine...


mingw make 3.79 works fine for me.  What sort of error did you get?

> As an aside, with the availability of mingw and cygwin, I wonder if the
> ntemacs port couldn't be configured by the usual congigure script in the
> base source directory as it would on any other unix system, or is this
> something to do with keeping compatibility with MSVC ?


 There is now a cygwin version of Emacs.  It's somewhat crippled in that it only works for X or tty.  But it does build from configure.   Last I heard the author was still working with his employer to get the copyright assignment papers approved, so none of the code's in CVS yet.  But you can download the patches with cygwin setup.  I believe the patches are against the 21.2 release.