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: Removing --with-gcc, Cygwin Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:12:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87sl0o5wtf.GNU's_Not_Unix!%yavor@gnu.org> <479776B3.6010500@gnu.org> <8uodba7c7j.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202098375 10484 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2008 04:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, yavor@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, jasonr@gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 04 05:13:15 2008 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 1JLshm-0002l9-F2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLshK-0003MN-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLshF-0003Ip-Iq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLshD-0003FG-Rv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLshD-0003F1-PO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:39 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLsh4-0004yC-9C; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 23:12:30 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-68-135.inter.net.il [80.230.68.135]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id JBE55506 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 06:09:37 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Glenn Morris on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:00:42 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (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:88129 Archived-At: > From: Glenn Morris > Cc: tromey@redhat.com, yavor@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:00:42 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > nt/INSTALL is not relevant to Cygwin builds. > > My total ignorance of such issues is what prompted my question. > It certainly seems to be related to Cygwin to me: > > > If you are using certain Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin > version 1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so: > > configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ > --ldflags -mwin32 > > However, the latest Cygwin versions, such as 1.3.3, don't need > those switches; you can simply use "configure --with-gcc". This talks about Cygwin builds of GCC, not of Emacs. The switches mentioned above let Cygwin GCC produce native Windows executables (as opposed to Cygwin executables, which depend on Cygwin runtime support).