Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch

[Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>]

"H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:

> Hello Phil
>
> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> They aren't anywhere accessible, because they are a bit specific to my
>> use.
>>
>> But for instance, I use one called "build-emacs27.sh" which essentially
>> looks like:
>>
>> rm -rf ~/emacs-build/build
>> rm -rf ~/emacs-build/install
>>
>> cd emacs-27/admin/nt/dist-build
>>
>>
>> ./build-zips.sh -g
>> ./build-zips.sh
>>
>
> I created such a script but my problem is that chmod seems not to work
> for me!
>
>    chmod u+x build-zips.sh
>
> doesn't change anything, so I can't run the scripts.  Do you know this
> problem?

I'd need an error message. build-zips.sh needs to be run in a mingw64
shell, and build-deps-zips.py in an msys2 shell (for obscure reasons
that I don't really understand).


>> Then I have "build-27-deps.sh" which again is just a launch script.
>>
>>
>> set -o errexit
>> if test -f emacs-src; then
>>     rsync -r emacs-src emacs-src-cache
>> fi
>> rm -rf i686 x86_64 emacs-src
>> ../git/emacs-27/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py -s 2>&1 | tee
>> build-deps.log
>> cp emacs-27* ~/emacs-upload
>
> I don't get here the "emacs-src" and "emacs-src-cache" folders, they
> aren't mention in README-scripts.  Do I have to create them by hand?

build-deps-zips should create them both at the same time. The cache is
useful because it means you don't need to download the source every
time. This step also tends to error and my script can't recover from
this, so the cache means it can pick up from where it left off.





> So I tried to run build-dep.zips.py -s by hand for (a snapshot) but I
> haven't had luck:
>
> Please have a look at the end and tell me which MSYS2 package contains
> /mingw64/bin/ntldd?  I don't see it in the system and in pacman
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/c/Users/uidg1626/emacs-build/deps/../git/master/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py", line 267, in <module>
>     gather_deps()
>   File "/c/Users/uidg1626/emacs-build/deps/../git/master/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py", line 71, in gather_deps
>     for dep in full_dll_dependency():
>   File "/c/Users/uidg1626/emacs-build/deps/../git/master/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py", line 83, in full_dll_dependency
>     deps = [dll_dependency(dep) for dep in DLL_REQ]
>   File "/c/Users/uidg1626/emacs-build/deps/../git/master/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py", line 83, in <listcomp>
>     deps = [dll_dependency(dep) for dep in DLL_REQ]
>   File "/c/Users/uidg1626/emacs-build/deps/../git/master/admin/nt/dist-build/build-dep-zips.py", line 88, in dll_dependency
>     output = check_output(["/mingw64/bin/ntldd", "--recursive",
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 424, in check_output
>     return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 505, in run
>     with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 951, in __init__
>     self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 1821, in _execute_child
>     raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/mingw64/bin/ntldd' 
>
>
> Thank you for your assistance

It's a mingw64 package. Building requires the full toolchain.

mingw-w64-x86_64-ntldd-git - MSYS2 Packages

Phil