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: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.* Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:50:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202068248 31601 80.91.229.12 (3 Feb 2008 19:50:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 19:50:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eric Lilja Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 03 20:51:10 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 1JLkrt-0000qA-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:51:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkrR-0004ik-Gq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkrO-0004if-S5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkrM-0004iP-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:50:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JLkrM-0004iM-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JLkrM-0003v3-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:50:36 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-211-79.inter.net.il [84.229.211.79]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id KCP78514 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:50:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: (message from Eric Lilja on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:52:46 +0100) 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:88103 Archived-At: > From: Eric Lilja > Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:52:46 +0100 > > Hi, I just performed a fresh cvs checkout and tried to build a native > windows version, using --enable-font-backend. I'm using a cygwin bash > shell, with latest mingw make and cygwin's gcc in mingw mode (using > -mno-cygwin). I've been building cvs versions of emacs this way for a > few years now. > > The bootstrap fails with: > mingw32-make[1]: *** No rule to make target > `../lisp/international/charprop.el', needed by `DOC'. Stop. Are you sure there were no stale files in the tree where you bootstrapped? If the above does not help, please post here the full transcript of "configure --enable-font-backend" and "make bootstrap". This problem should have been solved since yesterday. > Still getting alot of these warnings (for all lisp files maybe): > Compiling url/url-ns.elWarning: Default coding system `iso-latin-1' > disagrees with system codeset `cp1252' for this locale. > How do I avoid those in the build environment I briefly described above? > > Noticed several warnings in syntax.c relating to comparison always true > or false (can't remember which) due to limited range of data types or > something like that. You probably know what I'm talking about. > > Also noticed this: > In toplevel form: > term/mac-win.el:1146:1:Error: Invalid read syntax: "?" I see these as well. Please wait patiently until these are resolved. The Windows port currently needs quite a few fixes, and it will take time to make them. If you need a stable Emacs, I don't recommend the trunk right now.