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> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2020 20:19:43 +0200
> Cc: Nicolas Bértolo <nicolasbertolo@gmail.com>, akrl@sdf.org,
>  Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> If Emacs users have to install a working gcc toolchain to be able to compile to native code,
> it almost totally defeats the purpose.

How is that different from users on Posix platforms?

> IMHO, the right way to do it is to target a binary distribution that has all of what is needed.

So you want Emacs to come with a subset of GCC, a subset of Binutils,
and a subset of MinGW?  Is that reasonable?