From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there non-mingw32 binaries for Windows? Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:41:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83mvgxet50.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5c2aca208090e22a5029d348fe2206bb.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479415328 25438 195.159.176.226 (17 Nov 2016 20:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:42:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, phillip.lord@russet.org.uk To: Kevin Layer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 21:42:04 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TVU-0005YY-Fj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:42:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33172 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TVW-0003vy-7Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:42:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39865) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TVH-0003uS-9V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TVC-0006VZ-EE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:41:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:50020) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TVC-0006VH-7N; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:41:46 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1792 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1c7TV9-0006OR-CF; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:41:45 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Kevin Layer on Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:54:55 -0800) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209456 Archived-At: > From: Kevin Layer > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:54:55 -0800 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I've just never used the mingw32 binaries and the installation is more > complex. I have been repackaging the older, single-zip binaries with > an NSIS installer, since it's just easier for Windows people to run an > exe to install. The current binaries are also provided as a single zip file. The other zip file is for optional libraries that were not available with previous versions (you needed to install them separately by yourself). If you don't want the optional libraries, you don't have to install them. > I'm just embarking on the task of updating it for 25.1, and wanted to > know if the old style binaries were just temporarily missing or gone > forever. What are "the old style binaries"? > One question about the mingw32 emacs binary: is it like the Cygwin > emacs binary where it uses Cygwin mounts? What I liked about the > native (MSVC) compiled emacs was that it used C:\... instead of /c/... No, MinGW produces native Windows executables.