From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Moreton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Anyone building Emacs trunk with MinGW w64 (32 bits) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:47:38 +0000 Message-ID: <82txo1rj8l.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87zjxumbjf.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a9pu3zq1.fsf@gnu.org> <87vc8im7zi.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83620i3t21.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364068092 22145 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 19:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:48:12 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 20:48:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQe-0002Fp-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:48:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQH-0003rt-6t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:48:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQ7-0003pO-Pz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:48:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQ1-00006e-MV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:48:03 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52608) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQ1-00006I-Fh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUQL-00023u-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:48:17 +0100 Original-Received: from 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk ([82.69.64.228]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:48:17 +0100 Original-Received: from andrewjmoreton by 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:48:17 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 82-69-64-228.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dG/ydhzeLmx38LW7mJwTCFiDMdY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:158091 Archived-At: On Sat 23 Mar 2013, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Óscar Fuentes >> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:49:37 +0100 >> >> Indeed, the problem consists on differences in the header files. Seems >> that MinGW64 is diverging from MinGW at a quick pace. Adapting Emacs to >> those changes is a recipe for getting even more tangled preprocessor >> code in Emacs. I'm not sure it is worth the trouble unless MinGW stalls. > > You are probably right. We will hit these problems one day anyway, > when we'd add support for 64-bit MinGW builds, which is only available > in MinGW64, at least for now. Given that Fedora and Cygwin both ship MinGW64 based cross compilers for building native Windows binaries, that day would seem to be approaching. AndyM