From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs with MinGW 64 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 02:02:57 -0600 Message-ID: <86eflpnwpa.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <41708f1b-7ba7-cc6d-fc8c-3072ef63f4a5@gmail.com> <30b7a1f1-62e9-5b47-3756-5b7d6da7aca8@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1518508897 1649 195.159.176.226 (13 Feb 2018 08:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:01:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.90 (windows-nt) To: emacs-devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 13 09:01:33 2018 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 1elVWr-0008He-MD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 09:01:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elVYr-0007Wi-Ot for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34752) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elVYf-0007WI-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elVYb-0008IS-Mv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp105.ord1d.emailsrvr.com ([184.106.54.105]:39425) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1elVYb-00085E-JT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:17 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp6.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp6.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id D1F75E0058 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:00 -0500 (EST) X-Auth-ID: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: by smtp6.relay.ord1d.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: board-president-AT-tomahawk-creek-hoa.com) with ESMTPSA id 73EFFE0060 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:00 -0500 (EST) X-Sender-Id: board-president@tomahawk-creek-hoa.com Original-Received: from Takver4 (76-218-37-33.lightspeed.kscymo.sbcglobal.net [76.218.37.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AES256-GCM-SHA384) by 0.0.0.0:25 (trex/5.7.12); Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:03:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <30b7a1f1-62e9-5b47-3756-5b7d6da7aca8@gmail.com> (Ruslan Bekenev's message of "Sun, 11 Feb 2018 12:39:57 +0300") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 184.106.54.105 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:222705 Archived-At: Ruslan Bekenev writes: > Thank you for the answer, Noam. > >> You should look at the instructions that come with Emacs first. > Sure I did. But thank to your message I noticed NT folder which I've > missed. > >> You don't explain exactly why you don't want to use MSYS2. > I'm just afraid it's another toolchain I have to keep on my system and > I have to make sure it's not conflicting with other. As far as I got > MinGW has GCC and Make and some other tools like sed, grep, sh, etc. > So I didn't get the point of using MSYS2. > > But anyway, thank you again for your answer. I'll try to look deeper > to the MSYS2. I guess I've just misunderstood the purpose of msys. You are not alone; the msys and mingw websites do a terrible job of explaining this. Roughly, msys is for running bash scripts like configure, while mingw is the runtime libraries. -- -- Stephe