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


From: Underwood, Jonathan
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 15:30:53 -0400

Oh, spoke to soon, even fixing that i find mingw failing.
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From: Underwood, Jonathan
Sent: October 10, 2002 3:30 PM
To: Underwood, Jonathan; 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!

Ahhhh, I think i might have got to the bottom of the mingw building problem... if you have cygwin installed as well as mingw+msys, for some reason when you start msys it adds cygwins bin directory to the start of the PATH variable, so the make you end up running is cygwins make, which as expected, fails.
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From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: October 10, 2002 3:07 PM
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Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!



mingw make 3.79 works fine for me.  What sort of error did you get?
 
Upon doing a make bootstrap, i get the following :
 
Essential Lisp files seem to be missing.  You should either
do `make bootstrap' or create `lisp/abbrev.elc' somehow.
 
make: *** [maybe-bootstrap-SH] Error 255
 
 
 
lisp/abbrev.el exists but not the compiled version (abbrev.elc). Not sure what is the problem here, I will have to spend some time reading through the makefil etc to see what is going on.
 
jonathan.

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.

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