From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83vd1bwjig.fsf@gnu.org> <82lj27p9up.fsf@gmail.com> <83mxmnvviz.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296138773 13750 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 14:32:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 15:32:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiStw-0004k9-TW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiStw-0006wi-BA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60723 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PiStp-0006w2-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiStn-0006Oy-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:36 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:35009) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PiStn-0006Ou-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiStj-0007Q2-J0; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:32:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Andy Moreton on Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:22:35 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:135103 Archived-At: > From: Andy Moreton > Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:22:35 +0000 > > Mingw32 and wingw-w64 cross toolchains are available in some Linux distros. If > developers on other platforms could at least build the win32 port, it > would make it easier for those developers to check whether their changes > break the w32 build. It might also simplify building tarballs and binary > releases. IMO, a developer who uses a cross-compilation environment on a Posix platform should simply run the stock configure script in the top-level directory, using the cross-compiler, cross-linker, etc. If there are any problems with that (e.g., the tests made by the configure script do not cater to MinGW targets), they should be fixed in the Posix configury stuff, I think. Do you agree? If so, the first step to see how well (or how badly ;-) this works is to try.