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

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Many thanks for that, i'll have a bash at it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Key [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: October 15, 2002 11:24 PM
> To: 'Underwood, Jonathan'
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
> 
> 
> I was able to reproduce, and fix, the problem you are 
> experiencing with
> building the 21.2 sources with MinGW.  Here is a patch file that will
> resolve the issue.  Note: This issue does not happen with the 
> CVS sources
> for Emacs 21.3.50.
> <PATCH>
> --- _21.2/src/w32fns.c        2002-03-13 13:52:22.000000000 -0500
> +++ 21.2/src/w32fns.c 2002-10-15 23:15:36.000000000 -0400
> @@ -13969,17 +13969,17 @@
>  WINDOWS_CHARSET is a symbol that can be one of:\n\
>  w32-charset-ansi, w32-charset-default, w32-charset-symbol,\n\
>  w32-charset-shiftjis, w32-charset-hangeul, w32-charset-gb2312,\n\
> -w32-charset-chinesebig5, "
> +w32-charset-chinesebig5, \n\
>  #ifdef JOHAB_CHARSET
> -"w32-charset-johab, w32-charset-hebrew,\n\
> +w32-charset-johab, w32-charset-hebrew,\n\
>  w32-charset-arabic, w32-charset-greek, w32-charset-turkish,\n\
>  w32-charset-vietnamese, w32-charset-thai, w32-charset-easteurope,\n\
> -w32-charset-russian, w32-charset-mac, w32-charset-baltic,\n"
> -#endif
> -#ifdef UNICODE_CHARSET
> -"w32-charset-unicode, "
> -#endif
> -"or w32-charset-oem.\n\
> +w32-charset-russian, w32-charset-mac, w32-charset-baltic,\n\
> +#endif\n\
> +#ifdef UNICODE_CHARSET\n\
> +w32-charset-unicode, \n\
> +#endif\n\
> +or w32-charset-oem.\n\
>  CODEPAGE should be an integer specifying the codepage that should be
> used\n\
>  to display the character set, t to do no translation and output as
> Unicode,\n\
>  or nil to do no translation and output as 8 bit (or multibyte on
> far-east\n\
> </PATCH>
> 
> I was able to build the 21.3 sources using MingW / MSys 
> without so much
> trouble.  The trick is to download all of the newest stuff, 
> even the 1.08
> release candidate of msys (1.07 crashes in sh.exe while doing 
> the build).
> 
> Note: If running on Windows NT, make certain to set the 
> ComSpec environment
> variable to %WINDIR%\System32\CMD.EXE.  If it is set to 
> something else, such
> as 4NT.EXE, all kinds of weird errors result.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Underwood,
> Jonathan
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:06 PM
> To: 'Jason Rumney'; Underwood, Jonathan
> Cc: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
> Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> Unfortunately i am still unable to build emacs, either the 
> cvs version or
> the 21.2 sources. I'm using mingw and msys, and have tried 
> both makes that
> come with this system (having excluded all possibility that 
> cygwins make or
> gcc's etc are still being used) both through msys, and 
> through a cmd.exe
> console window. This is on windows 2000. I am runninging 
> configure.bat in
> the nt directory, followed by make bootstrap (or 
> mingw32make.exe bootstrap)
> at which point it fails. For the 21.2 sources which i have 
> reverted to, i
> get the error :
> 
> w32fns.c: In function `syms_of_w32fns':
> w32fns.c:13974: `DEFVAR_LISP' undeclared (first use in this function)
> w32fns.c:13974: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> w32fns.c:13974: for each function it appears in.)
> w32fns.c:13974: parse error before string constant
> mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [oo-spd/i386/w32fns.o] Error 1
> mingw32-make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `e:/emacs-21.2/src'
> mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [bootstrap-temacs] Error 2
> mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `e:/emacs-21.2/src'
> c:\mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2
> 
> 
> I would likle to resolve these building problems as i was hoping to
> contribute to ntemacs, but i seem to be stuck at the very 
> first hurdle.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> jonathan.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: October 10, 2002 5:32 PM
> > To: Underwood, Jonathan
> > Cc: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
> > 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).
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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