From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compiling Emacs 23.1.92 on Windows fails Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <4B80664D.5030606@gmail.com> <83d3zzw7cq.fsf@gnu.org> <4B80B4B3.3070609@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1266946759 18465 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2010 17:39:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Christoph To: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 23 18:39:15 2010 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 1Njyiz-0007Tt-52 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:39:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54882 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Njyij-0004as-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Njyie-0004ad-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42439 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NjyiY-0004Xm-BA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjyiT-00031M-KL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:50517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NjyiT-00031E-HT; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o1NHcZtA029286; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:35 -0500 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 96BBA4000B; Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:38:35 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4B80B4B3.3070609@gmail.com> (Christoph's message of "Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:21:07 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.91 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3475=0 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:121297 Archived-At: > Yes, that turned out to be the problem. > Using mingw32-make instead of cygwin's make worked and built successfully. Thanks. Eli, would it be possible to detect the use of cygwin's make and output a warning in that case? Stefan > On 2/20/2010 9:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:46:37 -0700 >>> From: Christoph >>> >>> I have been trying to compile Emacs Pretest 23.1.92 on Windows 7 >>> (cygwin, MinGW, GnuWin32) but haven't had any luck. >>> >>> I run >>> >>> configure.bat --no-debug --with-gcc --without-png -cflags >>> -IC:\Progra~2\GnuWin32\include >>> >>> then >>> >>> make bootstrap >>> >> If you are building the pretest, you don't need to bootstrap, just >> type "make" after the configure step. >> >> If that doesn't help, I suspect that your combination of Cygwin and >> MinGW tools does not work to build the native port of Emacs (see >> nt/INSTALL for some combinations that are known to work). E.g., it >> looks like your Make is a Cygwin port, which is known to fail. It is >> best to use only MinGW tools for the build. >>