From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:04:12 +0100 Message-ID: <87zgroipcj.fsf@russet.org.uk> References: <83lf3dgbl3.fsf@gnu.org> <87tuhz1kqt.fsf@russet.org.uk> <87v92ebcs1.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39362"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 04 21:07:57 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mXTJc-000A64-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:07:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58334 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXTJb-0004T0-PR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:07:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXTGl-0002D9-Rl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [78.129.138.227] (port=39802 helo=cloud103.planethippo.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mXTGj-0004o8-Jp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:04:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=russet.org.uk; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID: In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date: Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:List-Id: List-Help:List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=pY5NFCqnY019ghv9IDtcyKKnRgkj3uZxQkIwO07XV7A=; b=WCVjSXwLTzyFgDQZHfK7zZoWWz tp1sEKATnw+/8D4wF4ZFwLKaUQFhwIG/8QqcosFriO2H2RD3iakTQ3Obbo4xbiEGVl+ulILNyDAMf pYRei16SA7nlwYKfBPiZdBeTKEXlL5lC3D/ycR87DSsfj23Uudv3+oDhkH9WFncNx+fFdzbDIWdZT Z3KRysT0zhz22DDmNgU9TKO4ApLR9dbHSU6BAkWTY/v2gOXaQgdpKa7/eXNumK3ryuvpCRskp1tA4 mtqTEOECuSl1qgiRY5K2BkxaYaN+oIxqsZUqCP5RvqOQDiHiGmOP73cauvPI7M4i2OCX68VLq1EZK mNrWalLA==; Original-Received: from cpc142634-benw12-2-0-cust280.16-2.cable.virginm.net ([81.110.237.25]:35718 helo=russet.org.uk) by cloud103.planethippo.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1mXTG2-005b0C-J5; Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:04:13 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87v92ebcs1.fsf@yahoo.com> (Po Lu's message of "Sun, 03 Oct 2021 18:53:02 +0800") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cloud103.planethippo.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - russet.org.uk X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: cloud103.planethippo.com: authenticated_id: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Authenticated-Sender: cloud103.planethippo.com: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk X-Host-Lookup-Failed: Reverse DNS lookup failed for 78.129.138.227 (failed) Received-SPF: pass client-ip=78.129.138.227; envelope-from=phillip.lord@russet.org.uk; helo=cloud103.planethippo.com X-Spam_score_int: -12 X-Spam_score: -1.3 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RDNS_NONE=0.793, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276249 Archived-At: Po Lu writes: > Phillip Lord 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