From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FFI again
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 09:54:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txgs45iv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv8uy47l7o.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:38 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> > Windows systems. Most Windows users do not develpment tools installed,
> > and would have a hard time to find a C compiler producing binaries with
> > the correct ABI, and the other required build tools and dependencies.
>
> As mentioned, maybe this could be alleviated by providing precompiled
> binaries for Windows users.
Indeed, this is how this problem is usually solved. E.g., bzr
provides precompiled binaries of the C extensions used by the bzr-git
plugin.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-08 6:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-05 16:11 FFI again Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 16:24 ` joakim
2013-10-05 22:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-05 22:33 ` joakim
2013-10-06 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-06 18:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-06 19:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-07 1:41 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-07 3:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 4:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-07 4:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-07 22:14 ` Andy Moreton
2013-10-07 22:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-10-08 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-10-08 2:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08 2:47 ` Richard Stallman
2013-10-08 5:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-10-08 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-05 17:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-05 23:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2013-10-06 19:19 ` Richard Stallman
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