From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Avoid duplicate emacs.exe / emacs-$version.exe Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 05:36:38 +0300 Message-ID: <83mu7z6g5l.fsf@gnu.org> References: <865zeoctg3.fsf@csic.es> <83tv285ole.fsf@gnu.org> <86o8sgxdar.fsf@csic.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="79156"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juan =?utf-8?Q?Jos=C3=A9_Garc=C3=ADa-Ripoll?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 29 04:37:02 2020 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 1jINos-000KUn-1T for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 29 Mar 2020 04:37:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33766 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jINor-0002uN-49 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59132) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jINoO-0002Vs-Iv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44373) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1jINoO-0002o3-Ek; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1469 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jINoN-0006BS-Or; Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:36:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <86o8sgxdar.fsf@csic.es> (juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:245922 Archived-At: > From: Juan José García-Ripoll > > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:36:12 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > (This is a secondary point, but Emacs is not linked statically, at > > least not by default. > > Just a side note: the build-zips.sh script that makes the Windows > distribution files always uses the flag -static when building emacs. I don't think the build should use that. It is certainly not the default. > I understand this is done so that Emacs does not require copies of > the C, mingw and other libraries. Some of that. The C library cannot be linked in statically, because Windows doesn't come with static versions of the MSVCRT. > So, for the record, perhaps a more accurate statement is that Emacs in > Windows is always statically built Not "always", only if you use the scripts provided by Phillip. The default build procedure doesn't use -static.