From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7363: Problems compiling newest Emacs 23.2.90 pretest with MSVC 10 Express Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:47:30 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9469E027990D5C418DC69525CC9780840190D99D@DEMUEXC035.nsn-intra.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289394856 20346 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2010 13:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:14:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7363@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 10 14:14:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGAV6-0006JB-WD for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:14:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37522 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGAV5-0001Su-PP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:14:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34397 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PGAUs-0001RG-Fl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:13:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGAUr-0003SR-EN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:13:54 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:57751) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PGAUr-0003SL-CI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGA10-0007ex-HV; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:43:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7363 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7363-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7363.128939297129417 (code B ref 7363); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7363) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Nov 2010 12:42:51 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGA0p-0007eQ-BG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGA0n-0007e9-98 for 7363@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PGA5K-0003P5-IG; Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:47:30 -0500 In-reply-to: <9469E027990D5C418DC69525CC9780840190D99D@DEMUEXC035.nsn-intra.net> (pedro.gomes@nsn.com) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:43:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41466 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:58:12 +0100 > From: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" > Cc: > > I'm having a lot of problems compiling Emacs 23.2.90 with MSVC 10 > Express. Are there already any already recepies/patches/hacks for it MSVC 10 (actually MSVC 8.0 and later) is not supported, sorry. See nt/INSTALL. MS modified their run-time libraries too extensively, in particular in the area of memory management, and that screws up the dumped Emacs too much. With a MinGW port of GCC freely available and fully supported, the motivation of Emacs maintainers to cater to MSVC is below zero, so no one cared enough to overcome these problems. > shall I dig deeper and provide some patches ? I would suggest instead to install MinGW and use that. Of course, if you do decide to fix the MSVC build and provide patches to do that, we will consider them for inclusion. Thanks in advance.