Re: [External] : Emacs pretest 28.0.91 is out

["H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>]

Hi again

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> Hi again!
>
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 3:43 PM H. Dieter Wilhelm
> <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Corwin
>>
>> Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:
>>
>> > I (and others) have volunteered to attempt to come up to speed with
>> > this.  I'm attempting to make dist on windows now but I'm very, very
>> > novice.   I'm optimistic one of us will get there, however.   I'll
>> > share a link to my build artifacts if I do manage to create some.
>
> I've placed my very first successfully built redistributables for
> windows into a repo on sourcehut.  I'd be grateful for any reports of
> trouble, suggestions, or confirmation these work for others.

I used your installer successfully. :-)

> browse the tree:  https://git.sr.ht/~mplscorwin/emacs-w64/tree
> clone the repo: https://git.sr.ht/~mplscorwin/emacs-w64
>
> ...

> - I ended up creating ~/emacs-build and ~/emacs-upload rather than
> messing with the scripts.
> - I had to run build-zips and build-deps many, many times
> - each failure required finding and install a missing msys package
> then trying again
>   # pacman -Ss <partial-name>
>   # pacman -S <full_x86_64_name>

   - had additionally to install: mingw-w64-x86_64-lerc,
     mingw-w64-x86_64-tzdata, some scr tgz with 0 size in emacs-src!
   - brotli compression library
   - pacman -S zip unzip  mingw-w64-x86_64-ntldd-git

> - this lead me to install sed via:
>   # pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-sed-HMM
> - once I installed that version of sed Emacs' configure stopped working
> - I "fixed" that by
>   # mv /mingw64/bin/sed /mingw64/bin/sed
>   # cp /usr/bin/sed /mingw64/bin

Strange, I had no problems with sed..

> Also (as I think you know):
> - build-dep-zips.py still has incorrect paths for MINGW sources:

Yes, can't recollect which emacs-developer pointed me to the latest
address

> # diff /c/Users/corwi/emacs-build/git/emacs-28/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> /d/projects/emacs-28/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py
> 124,125c124,125
> < #SRC_REPO="https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/Sources"
> < SRC_REPO="https://repo.msys2.org/mingw/sources"


        Dieter

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany