From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Anyone building Emacs trunk with MinGW w64 (32 bits) Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:54 +0200 Message-ID: <831ub5519d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87zjxumbjf.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a9pu3zq1.fsf@gnu.org> <87vc8im7zi.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83620i3t21.fsf@gnu.org> <82txo1rj8l.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364069214 31372 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 20:06:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:06:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 21:07:21 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 1UJUim-0005WJ-JJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:07:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUiO-00071a-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:06:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUiJ-00071R-Vx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:06:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUiJ-0007z0-0R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:49602) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUiI-0007yq-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 16:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MK400G00QFPPG00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:49 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MK400GHRQJCKX80@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:06:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <82txo1rj8l.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:158092 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:47:38 +0000 > > > 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. Building a native Windows Emacs on Posix platforms needs yet another job to be done: support for a MinGW build in the Posix configury (the configure script and Makefile.in files). This is orthogonal to what I mentioned above, and has to be done in addition.