From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:04:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgroipcj.fsf@russet.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v92ebcs1.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:53:02 +0800")
Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> As the release of Emacs-28 is soon, I would like to look for someone to
>> take over the role of producing windows releases.
>>
>> I've done this job for quite a while now, since Emacs-25, when I used to
>> build the releases on windows partition that I had saved on an machine I
>> use for running Kodi in my living room. Since then, it has gone virtual,
>> the process has become mostly automatic, dependencies have been included
>> by default and there is an exe installer.
>>
>> It is not a huge amount of work to just roll the releases but especially
>> after the last year, it's a more than I have time for.
>>
>> In addition, there are a number of things that could be added: an msi or
>> msix installer, support for native comp. I cannot see having the time
>> for this into the foreseable future.
>>
>> If anyone is interested, let me know. Happy to take anyone through the
>> process and provide as much support as I can.
>>
>> Phil
>
> Thanks for your effort. One question though: can the builds be made
> with Wine or ReactOS and an entirely free toolchain?
No, not to my knowledge. Emacs does not cross-compile. It has to be
built on Windows, using msys2 and mingw64. The toolchain is free, the
operating system is not.
Phil
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Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-30 18:30 The emacs-28 release branch has been created Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-02 15:58 ` Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 10:53 ` Po Lu
2021-10-04 19:04 ` Phillip Lord [this message]
2021-10-16 20:24 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2021-10-17 0:43 ` Po Lu
2021-10-17 13:45 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2021-10-20 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 11:22 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-04 19:05 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-16 10:03 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-16 13:31 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-16 16:01 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20 15:24 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-20 18:36 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-27 19:36 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-27 21:07 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-01 20:47 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-01 21:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-02 11:16 ` Eshell requires execute permission on Win10, was " H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-02 14:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-02 18:57 ` MinGW Sources, was: Windows Binaries Release H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-02 19:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-04 17:51 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-08 22:27 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-09 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 14:32 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-02 10:47 ` Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch Phillip Lord
2021-11-02 12:05 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-21 0:13 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-27 21:11 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 1:35 ` The emacs-28 release branch has been created Ken Brown
2021-10-03 6:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-03 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 15:01 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 15:34 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-10-03 17:56 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-10-03 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 19:45 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 21:21 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 22:40 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-04 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 13:31 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-04 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 14:45 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
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2021-10-04 15:13 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 16:15 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 19:38 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 19:40 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 21:58 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-05 11:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 15:43 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 15:37 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 16:52 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2021-10-04 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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