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: [PATCH 0/9] Support Win32 GUI in Cygwin Emacs Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:53:52 +0300 Message-ID: <83a9y6f60v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r4rifwhh.fsf@gnu.org> <50215075.5060105@dancol.org> <83lihqfu9w.fsf@gnu.org> <50217762.5080707@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344394443 17915 80.91.229.3 (8 Aug 2012 02:54:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 02:54:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Colascione Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 08 04:54:03 2012 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 1SywPF-0007AA-LR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 04:53:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SywPF-0005iu-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33437) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SywPC-0005iX-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SywPB-0001CJ-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:64374) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SywPB-0001C8-0J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M8F00C0018FT100@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:53:51 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M8F00C3Y1DRT900@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 08 Aug 2012 05:53:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <50217762.5080707@dancol.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 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:152308 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:15:30 -0700 > From: Daniel Colascione > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > _configure.bat_ --no-cygwin exists, but because I don't use configure.bat, I > didn't notice it. I'm building Emacs using the usual autoconf machinery and > bash. I'd like to make it possible to cross-compile an NT-native Emacs in the > Cygwin environment using the autoconf machinery. Using configure.bat is currently the only way to build the native Windows Emacs. > By the way: -mno-cygwin hasn't worked for a few years now. The Cygwin people now > recommend using a real cross-compiler to compile for MinGW --- e.g., > i686-w64-mingw32-gcc. Yes, I know. If that's the only problem with using Cygwin tools to build a native Windows binary, making the change is very easy. > If I had my way, we'd drop configure.bat entirely and always build NT-native > Emacs by cross-compiling from Cygwin. We could support that option (as well as using MSYS tools with MinGW compiler), if someone did the job of adapting the configury.