From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 21:57:17 +0200 Message-ID: <83ee50oo9u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87sftmn1k9.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83sftmwner.fsf@gnu.org> <87mtjump5q.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86h7a25nz7.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <878rve85yy.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86a6fu3xb2.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <87tue1j8x0.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86wniw3kdq.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83tue0u8sh.fsf@gnu.org> <86sftk3evj.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <86k0ev3jvj.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <86bl07361o.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <8635li3mog.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <86y23a10fy.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83h79xpob1.fsf@gnu.org> <86tudx1h4z.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> <83v8ydnvle.fsf@gnu.org> <86lez828ta.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34178"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: corwin@bru.st, emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 21 20:58:22 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nB03B-0008hN-H6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:58:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45062 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB03A-0006Ef-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:58:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:50672) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB02J-0005RX-P4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:57:27 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=51180 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB02I-0001Wh-Rl; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:57:27 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=IKPsUMdmYTGdQoOfMrbV4KMDgi/ehFYXBhpbz55/UlU=; b=bQv0Lb7OIQSC mdXhNK3Z52Dsz8UBlEuaRUsguUIhY4eWRuDud2Mk9/QzqdK9NgD2aKVCRzZcEN7eNKsjt+huSYOP5 +5amSDu4jc9uXDXdQaZG4oS2wRYyMsv6avPnoatpXU22Vf6l19BfX6SbpgWInU4l/+AHJGYoEMFa7 E98/e3aBBPaOuDm4w3FcYp4eo4lqRfsYk+ruHqRO4nQvol0QAEBgogK1D7TUpbYj1yNPbVKvOVQF5 tNmcAVn4SGQpf07fyDAYW2hc7RIqZBme9PmJo5/H6KSoVbMbdts+HLVvb2TCmf0A1XUmrTcLtvshg DY2qvapq8UQCAvVODfe0Fw==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1689 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nB02I-0004oe-Il; Fri, 21 Jan 2022 14:57:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <86lez828ta.fsf@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> (dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:285159 Archived-At: > From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" > Cc: corwin@bru.st, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 20:22:09 +0100 > > It'll work for the libexec\ and share\ branches. > > But I'm afraid, currently, not for all files in the bin\ branch, they'll > be overwritten after a default (side-by-side?) installation. For > example runemacs.exe and emacsclient.exe are then only working for the > last installed release. Why is that a problem? the old versions can still be invoked, just not via the default methods. Which is exactly the expected result when installing a newer version. > For Emacs-27 there are more than 150 .exe files, moreover .dll and > scripts in bin\. Maybe this will work if one is installing ever newer > releases but in the opposite case, I'm not sure.. Be sure. I'm doing this on my system all the time. > (But I guess few Windows users intend to run multiple Emacs releases, > just using the latest and greatest.) Most of them, yes. But there's no reason to force them to remove the old version. > By the way. Would you mind to tell me why an emacsclientw.exe together > with emacsclient.exe is needed That's explained in nt/README. > and what emacs.pdmp is for? That's the preloaded packages that are dumped when Emacs is built and loaded when Emacs is started.