Re: Problems building CVS Emacs on Windows XP using MinGW

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Ivan Kanis <expire-by-2008-08-28@kanis.fr> writes:

  > Hi Eli, I found some time ;)
  > 
  > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
  > 
  > > Here are a few questions, for starters:
  > >
  > >  . What are your development tools and their versions?  Please include
  > >    version information about MinGW itself (from its header files), w32
  > >    API package, versions of GCC, Binutils, any sh.exe you may have
  > >    installed, Make, and the cp.exe and rm.exe used for the build.
  > >
  > >
  > >
  > #define __MINGW32_VERSION 3.14
  > gcc version 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
  > GNU ld version 2.17.50 20060824 (from mingw)
  > GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)
  > GNU Make 3.81 i386-pc-mingw32 (from gnuwin32)
  > cp (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 (from gnuwin32)
  > rm (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0 (from gnuwin32)
  > 
  > >  . Do you use any Cygwin or MSYS tools for the build, and if so, what
  > >    are they?
  > 
  > MSYS for the shell
  > 
  > >  . Does the problem happen in byte compiling _any_ file, or just with
  > >    some?  If the latter, please list a dozen files that have this
  > >    problem and post the corresponding error messages.
  > 
  > just with vietnamese.el
  > 
  > >  . Is the byte-compiling problem still there after you build Emacs
  > >    using *.elc files produced on another system or by another version
  > >    of Emacs?
  > 
  > it compiles fine with emacs 22.2.1
  > 
  > I got the following errors which if fixed by compiling with emacs 22:
  > 
  > mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `d:/IVAN/emacs/lib-src'
  > mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../lisp/language/european.elc', needed by `DOC'.  Stop.
  > mingw32-make: *** [all-other-dirs-gmake] Error 2
  > 
  > And then this at the end of the compile, emacs 22 did no help so I
  > remove the files from the makefile:
  > 
  > In toplevel form:
  > quail/PY.el:88:1:Error: End of file during parsing

Do you have the emacs/etc/charsets directory in your tree?