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

[David Starks-Browning]

On Friday 11 Oct 02, Jeff Rancier writes:
> David,
> 
> Can you speak for cygwin?

I haven't studied the cygwin port myself, sorry.

David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)

>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jason Rumney 
>   To: Underwood, Jonathan 
>   Cc: 'address@hidden' ; address@hidden 
>   Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:31 PM
>   Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
> 
> 
>   "Underwood, Jonathan" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   > 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 ?
> 
>   Even mingw32 tools are Windows programs that need Windows
>   paths. Also, the standard configure script would require a bourne
>   compatible shell.
> 
>   The cygwin build does use the standard configure scripts AFAIK, but
>   does not do native Windows display (and probably has numerous other
>   bugs lurking due to the fact that Windows is different in many ways
>   to Unix-like systems, no matter how transparent cygwin tries to make
>   this).