From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: --with-gtk as default?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:15:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E7EB25.3020105@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HMyQt-0007dt-DX@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman wrote:
> It wasn't. Emacs still does not build with the latest Microsoft
> compiler. The solution is to use static libraries rather than dynamic,
> but the multithreaded static library was missing some functions we need,
> and the singlethreaded static library, which is what we use with earlier
> versions of the Microsoft compiler, has been removed from the latest
> release.
>
> What do you recommend we do now? Should we simply say, "Microsoft's
> compiler is broken, so use GCC"?
>
We should document that the latest version of msvc will not work, yes. I
don't see a point in putting a lot of effort into supporting it anymore.
In the past there wasn't a suitable port of gcc to Windows so we put
more effort into making sure Emacs compiled with every version of msvc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-02 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-27 19:43 --with-gtk as default? David Kastrup
2007-02-27 21:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-27 21:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 21:27 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-27 22:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:27 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-27 22:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:13 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-27 22:21 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 4:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 6:29 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 7:32 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 20:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 22:15 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-01 4:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-01 7:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-03-01 8:44 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-02 3:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 7:40 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-03-02 9:15 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2007-03-02 13:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-02 23:47 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 23:46 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-03 1:43 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-04 2:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-02 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 20:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-28 7:27 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-28 7:57 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 8:22 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 8:44 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-28 8:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 11:23 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 11:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 12:18 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-28 12:28 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 13:00 ` Romain Francoise
2007-03-01 10:06 ` Nick Roberts
2007-03-01 11:45 ` Christian Faulhammer
2007-02-28 13:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-28 13:14 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 13:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-28 13:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-02-28 16:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-28 20:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-03-01 9:07 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-01 1:09 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-01 9:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 9:22 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 9:35 ` Jason Rumney
2007-03-02 9:45 ` David Kastrup
2007-03-02 10:57 ` Jan Djärv
2007-02-28 17:31 ` Ralf Angeli
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