From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ryan Bowman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Self-hosting? Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:24:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040407162414.90493.qmail@web41415.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040407150101.GB2118@grenekatz.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0318684016==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1081355851 16530 80.91.224.253 (7 Apr 2004 16:37:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 16:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 07 18:37:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BBG3G-0000QK-00 for ; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:37:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBFyP-0008N5-3s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:32:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BBFxs-0008K9-Op for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BBFxM-0007Zm-7d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:31:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.218.93.81] (helo=web41415.mail.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BBFx2-0006tk-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 12:30:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.187.0.165] by web41415.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:24:14 PDT Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <20040407150101.GB2118@grenekatz.org> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Mime-version: 1.0 Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17717 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17717 --===============0318684016== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1225655851-1081355054=:90085" --0-1225655851-1081355054=:90085 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii For emacs 21.3.5 windows binary see http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net/, it's great! Emacs doesn't include a c compiler, it requires an external one. If you want one for windows check out http://www.mingw.org. Until a c compiler is included with emacs, an external one will be required to compile the c core. At least, as far as I understand. Josh Jore wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:40:47AM -0500, Josh Jore wrote: } Is there any chance emacs will ever be self-hosting? I'd like to take } my current emacs binary and compile the next version with it. I've no } C compiler on my Windows computer and thus can't deal with things that } require one. I figured that if emacs was really a lisp interpreter } shouldn't it be able to compile itself? I forgot to mention, my primary motivation here was to get a 21.x emacs for my windows computer. The ftp.gnu.org resource still has the RSN message for all the windows binaries since 20.7. -- Josh > ATTACHMENT part 1.2 application/pgp-signature _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway - Enter today --0-1225655851-1081355054=:90085 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
For emacs 21.3.5 windows binary see http://nqmacs.sourceforge.net/, it's great!
Emacs doesn't include a c compiler, it requires an external one.  If you want one for windows check out http://www.mingw.org.  Until a c compiler is included with emacs, an external one will be required to compile the c core. At least, as far as I understand.

Josh Jore <josh@grenekatz.org> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 09:40:47AM -0500, Josh Jore wrote:
} Is there any chance emacs will ever be self-hosting? I'd like to take
} my current emacs binary and compile the next version with it. I've no
} C compiler on my Windows computer and thus can't deal with things that
} require one. I figured that if emacs was really a lisp interpreter
} shouldn't it be able to compile itself?

I forgot to mention, my primary motivation here was to get a 21.x
emacs for my windows computer. The ftp.gnu.org resource still has the
RSN message for all the windows binaries since 20.7.

--
Josh


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