From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info: Emacs build using VC 2005 (VC8) failure Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:26:30 +0530 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181894223 3521 80.91.229.12 (15 Jun 2007 07:57:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:57:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 15 09:57:02 2007 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 4.50) id 1Hz6fx-0008VG-2c for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:56:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz6fw-0006Oa-Lp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz6fZ-00068H-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz6fY-00067s-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hz6fY-00067n-7T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:32 -0400 Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com ([66.249.90.183]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hz6fX-0004lS-Le for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:56:31 -0400 Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c29so1028870ika for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:56:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=maRj/qig0BlP/yvYBwRgwbAmp+LdBqQtO/LffqcmMU7eJHkXWhtxhJ/ueYrfNi/zBN27KrQNZUq/czMu/7cdQtjU0GWey6zcXhN3kN0fmy97a1zNcEG2W8aHGe4xF3qG9zzYe+W+kpRN2B4griES0IHIrSnGlfAu5aizdM8romg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VB69eaWtRpa19FPTZzGINVUu3lNZwKuZP0ls+GCKrZSBvRnhfJQwd2SJoyIYMY18xLuj69TF9N8ovDusS13ILMn9v7untyoVdAekC0/xPzAVgZRikG6di+rUsE0Ugk+XaUSiIAVwxSBcVS0NGtp0XJjklBSKxpXY4a/7HA5FTpg= Original-Received: by 10.78.132.2 with SMTP id f2mr1106250hud.1181894190544; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.206.13 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:56:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:72928 Archived-At: Hi Eli, On 6/15/07, Eli Zaretskii 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!