From: dhruva <dhruvakm@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Info: Emacs build using VC 2005 (VC8) failure
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:26:30 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3f230850706150056u36826c83kfdea755d475e494b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ufy4tiu4e.fsf@gnu.org>
Hi Eli,
On 6/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> When this came up during the pretest of Emacs 22.1, we felt that,
> given the availability of the MinGW port of GCC, expending to much
I agree. Since MinGW port is mature, as part of GNU, we should also
promote it. I have myself used MinGW for building Emacs and have not
seen any shortcomings (that MS-VS could solve).
> effort on adding VC8 support is unjustified. You are welcome to try
> to make it work and submit the resulting patches, of course.
I will give it a shot. If the changes are few and easy to incorporate,
might be worth having it in.
> We tried to use libcmt, but the resulting binary crashes because some
> conflict with memory allocation functions.
That is a good pointer, I will try to focus on that.
with best regards,
dhruva
--
Dhruva Krishnamurthy
Contents reflect my personal views only!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-14 9:09 Info: Emacs build using VC 2005 (VC8) failure dhruva
2007-06-14 10:42 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-15 6:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-15 7:56 ` dhruva [this message]
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