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: MS-Windows build using Posix configury Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 19:19:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83sj25nym2.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d2tu49lu.fsf@gnu.org> <8338un359j.fsf@gnu.org> <831ua72fml.fsf@gnu.org> <83ehe51zi4.fsf@gnu.org> <837gjx1vpx.fsf@gnu.org> <83a9otys0h.fsf@gnu.org> <834nezzzma.fsf@gnu.org> <8361z2psr1.fsf@gnu.org> <83zjweo5dh.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367511582 4365 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2013 16:19:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 16:19:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 02 18:19:39 2013 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 1UXwEM-0000X5-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 18:19:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36559 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXwEM-0008PB-DM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 12:19:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39595) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXwEI-0008NV-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 12:19:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXwEH-0002cf-8T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 12:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:40544) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UXwEH-0002cM-1C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 12:19:33 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MM600800INPMM00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 May 2013 19:19:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MM60082FIO6H680@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Thu, 02 May 2013 19:19:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 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:159264 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 08:43:19 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: Emacs development discussions > > >> Indeed, I didn't have pkg-config installed, sorry (I thought that the > >> packages auto-installed by mingw-get were enough already). > > > > pkg-config is not a MinGW package, so mingw-get knows nothing about > > it. > > Do you mean that "pkg-config" is a MSYS package (as opposed to being a > MinGW package)? No, I mean that it's neither MinGW nor MSYS. It's a 3rd-party Windows port. So mingw-get doesn't support it, as it doesn't support, for example, my ports. > Manually installing a package consists of just expanding the > compressed file under a suitable directory. But then, how can someone > remove (or replace with a newer version) one package installed in such > way? I never needed to uninstall a package; if I did, I'd probably make a list of files from its zip listing, and then prepare a script that would remove all the files in the list, except *.dll files and share/info/dir. To install a newer version, just unzip it. I normally do it interactively, to be able to decide individually whether to overwrite each file (important especially for DLLs and info/dir again), but you can also say "unzip -o" and overwrite them all. > How can someone make a binary distribution of Emacs for Windows, using > the new MSYS build system? make install prefix=WHEREVER where WHEREVER doesn't exist, and then go to WHEREVER and create an archive from the entire tree starting at it.