From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Bloat in Windows (revisited) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:27:23 +0200 Message-ID: <878stypuck.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <874l53g0yk.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83y32erdlt.fsf@gnu.org> <87imtieaiv.fsf@russet.org.uk> <871s01uo4c.fsf@russet.org.uk> <838su5z812.fsf@gnu.org> <8f0cc494-50fd-c1b0-d667-48831ca8dc13@gmail.com> <8736kdxj8m.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87tvco5hjd.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83wohisvpk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="103897"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 18 21:30:34 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJoN-000Qpk-Mo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33070 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJoM-00013h-DE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:30:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:41900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJnw-00013Z-Ju for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:30:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJnv-0005Dr-Mf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:30:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=46964 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJnv-0005BI-Fr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 15:30:03 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hdJnt-000Q7G-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 21:30:01 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Qo348wC45mpTV1kAcx68Y5xU1MU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:237865 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> That's right: any program that needs to be run as part of its build >> breaks cross-building, because cross-building produces binaries that >> cannot be run on the host where they are compiled. > > Tho sometimes this can be fixed by building those tools twice: > - once for the target > - once for the host (to run it during the build). > > E.g. I think we could build almost all of Emacs's files via > cross-compilation, the only exception being the dumped Emacs (i.e. the > .pdmp files): we could build a "host-temacs" which we can use to compile > the .elc files and then a "target-temacs" for the actual > intended target. But generating the target .pdmp file requires running > the target-temacs. For the case GNU/Linux -> Windows, Wine could be of help for generating the .pdmp file. Furthermore, since .elc files are cross-platform (right?) an existent Emacs install could be used if its version is compatlible.