Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 15:25:50 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >   ** Download and install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2
> >
> >   Go to https://msys2.org and follow the instructions.  It is not
> >   necessary to install the packages suggested on those instructions.
> >
> > What does the last sentence mean? which packages are unnecessary?
> > Some of them, all of them?
> 
> The packages mentioned on msys2.org either are the "wrong" ones (UCRT64)
> or are already listed on INSTALL.W64.

So you are saying they should "follow the instructions" up until and
including item 5, and thereafter proceed with what we say in "**
Download and install the necessary packages"?

> > Also, it looks like msys2.org tells users to install the UCRT64
> > variety of MinGW,
> 
> Yes, UCRT64 is the variety recommended by the MSYS2 team since recently.
> 
> > whereas you said earlier that INSTALL.W64 points to
> > the MSVCRT variety.  Should we say something about this in the
> > Download and Install sections?
> 
> That's already solved as our instructions direct the user to the MINGW64
> shell and the packages on our list are the mingw-w64-x86_64-* variety.
> 
> >> Some problems remain:
> >> 
> >> * There are references to past emacs versions.
> >
> > I fixed that, but I honestly don't see how this is important.  They
> > are just examples.
> 
> The impression I got from that document is that the user will tend to
> type commands verbatim.
> 
> >> * libgccjit is missing on the list of dependencies.
> >
> > Please tell how to modify the pacman command to add libgccjit.
> 
> Add the package mingw-w64-x86_64-libgccjit.

Got it, thanks.