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: W32 version crashes on C-g Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:52:12 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142679169 4043 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2006 10:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 10:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 18 11:52:48 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZ30-00079r-3z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:52:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZ2y-00080n-NP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZ2e-00080V-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZ2d-00080J-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:52:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZ2d-00080G-MT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKZ7i-00056p-NH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 05:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-61.inter.net.il [84.228.248.61]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DTU15752 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:52:13 +0200 (IST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) 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:51798 Archived-At: > From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:49:09 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > So you lost me there... I just installed MSYS and MINGW, and now > you're telling me to run stuff in COMMAND.COM ? You don't need MSYS, just MinGW. The Makefile's produced by nt/configure.bat will run both with and without a Unixy shell. And in any case, there's no need to invoke configure.bat from a Unixy shell, since it's a batch file. (In fact, some ports of sh.exe will not be able to run batch files at all.) > C:\gnu\devel\nt>gcc -mno-cygwin -c junk.c > gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory Your GCC installation is broken or incomplete. > I tried to look at nt/INSTALL, and rather than giving > ONE CLEAR way to build it, it gives an utterly complex > mix of basic CMD.COM, Cygwin, and MinGW stuff that may > work in various combinations. I understand that you were in a hurry and mildly annoyed, and in that condition too complex installation instructions may cause a lot of grief. But please look closer at nt/INSTALL: the ``complex mix'' is described at the beginning, and after that you have sections labeled "Confoguring", "Building", and "Installing" that describe the way to build and install Emacs. > Would someone like to work on a simple, step-by-step > guide for building this using ONE tool-kit (e.g. MinGW), > tell _exactly_ where to find the right versions of those tools, > libaries, etc. it would be nice. nt/INSTALL assumes that you already have a working development environment, and so it doesn't tell how to set up such an environment. I don't object to adding such info (probably near the end, so that it stays out of the way of the impatient ;-), but please understand that you were trying to climb a very steep learning curve, hoping you will be able to do that in about 5 seconds. It's just not so easy on Windows.