Building Emacs on MS Windows

Building Emacs on MS Windows

[Lars Hansen]

I have some problems building Emacs from CVS on MS Windows.

1. It seems the files nt/configure.bat and nt/makefile.w32-in have wrong 
newlines.

2. When I correct this and try the command "configure.bat" followed by 
mingw32-make.exe bootstrap" in the nt directory, I get a lot of errors like:

 >>Error occurred processing calc/calc-aent.el: File error (("Opening 
input file" "no such file or directory" 
"d:/cvs/emacs/nt/calc/calc-aent.el"))

Obviosly the problem is that the directory calc resides in the directory 
lisp rather than in the directory nt. I have tried in the file 
lisp/makefile to prefix each module name in the variable WINS with 
"$(lisp)/". That seems to get me past the problem above. But then I get 
the following error:

mingw32-make.exe[1]: Entering directory `D:/cvs/emacs/leim'
"./../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file 
--multibyte -l D:/cvs/emacs/leim/../lisp/international/titdic-cnv \
     --eval '(batch-titdic-convert t)' \
     -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
Converting d:/cvs/emacs/nt/CXTERM-DIC to quail-package...
Opening input file: no such file or directory, d:/cvs/emacs/nt/CXTERM-DIC
Signal 127
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [quail/CCDOSPY.elc] Error 255
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `D:/cvs/emacs/leim'
d:\mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe: *** [all-other-dirs-gmake] Error 2

Obviosly the problem is the directory CXTERM-DIC resides in the 
directory leim rather than in the directory nt.

What is wrong here?

Re: Building Emacs on MS Windows

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 00:16:21 +0100
Lars Hansen <larsh@kabelnettet.dk> wrote:

> I have some problems building Emacs from CVS on MS Windows.
> 
> 1. It seems the files nt/configure.bat and nt/makefile.w32-in have wrong 
> newlines.

Yes.

Or, to be precise, I think the .bat files were commited to the CVS with
CR/LF pairs but weren't marked as binary... so many CVS clients, when
checking them out, blindly traslate CR/LF to CR/CR/LF. I usually do

  cvs -q update -C -kb *.bat

to get rid of the problem.

> 2. When I correct this and try the command "configure.bat" followed by 
> mingw32-make.exe bootstrap" in the nt directory, I get a lot of errors like:

Are you using bash?

-- 
Juanma Barranquero <lektu@terra.es>

Re: Building Emacs on MS Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Lars Hansen wrote:

> I have some problems building Emacs from CVS on MS Windows.

Please don't report problems with CVS versions of Emacs here.  Instead, 
please use the mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org.

Thanks.