From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:35:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn9evefh.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <2577057e-98d3-41ce-ade2-1496648b09c3@googlegroups.com> <837fk3m141.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451050593 32430 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2015 13:36:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:36:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 25 14:36:24 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXg-0006wV-4m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:36:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35389 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXf-0001Io-6b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 08:36:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXU-0001IU-Os for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 08:36:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXP-0006g3-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 08:36:12 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53073) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXP-0006fx-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 08:36:07 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aCSXL-0006VZ-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from 156.red-83-43-197.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.43.197.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:36:03 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 156.red-83-43-197.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:36:03 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.red-83-43-197.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UPX9fBNU1J0o6IGJAZ02yJlnEYs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108476 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:01:53 -0800 (PST) >> From: Sam Halliday >> >> Are there any plans for GNU to create official 64 bit builds of >> Emacs releases? > > You mean, for Windows? Or for all 64-bit platforms? > > If the former, this simply needs a volunteer who'd be prepared to > produce the binaries, package them in a compressed archive, set up > uploading rights to the GNU servers, and upload the stuff whenever a > new release is out. IIRC the problematic part is to create and distribute a source tarball with all the libraries included on the binary package (graphic libraries, SSL, etc). This was discussed on the past and can't recall the outcome. >> I understand we use mingw to cross-compile > > MinGW is not a cross compiler, at least not when it runs on Windows > natively. It's a native Windows port of GNU development tools (GCC > and Binutils) that runs on MS-Windows, targets MS-Windows, and uses > the Windows runtime libraries for its C library. MinGW is used on GNU/Linux as a cross compiler for creating Windows binaries. Maybe the OP is thinking on this scenario. He is not aware of the peculiar build procedure of Emacs, which requires dumping a running binary image (maybe this could be achieved running temacs under Wine, but modifications to the build scripts are required). [snip]