From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to *properly* set up Emacs on Windows? Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:37:55 +0100 Message-ID: <87r18amjp8.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <871r0drus2.fsf@telefonica.net> <329e100c-bdc0-4dd3-9f8b-64af1b4cc90e@www.fastmail.com> <87sfssqirv.fsf@telefonica.net> <874k565pup.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34585"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6MXOuv/yrIeAPjoKdLOXTF/YJPc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 10 23:38:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nII5T-0008fC-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:38:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57440 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nII5S-0000II-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60240) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nII4n-0000IA-SB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:42770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nII4m-0001Yc-81 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nII4j-0007ne-CV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 23:38:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.248, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:135887 Archived-At: Joost Kremers writes: >>> (The >>> Windows binaries that were anounced on emacs-devel the other day >>> appear to be MSYS2 binaries? >> >> I don't think so. > > I think I saw it mentioned somewhere that they were built with MSYS2. But I > understand now that it's possible to build MinGW binaries with MSYS2, so that > doesn't mean anything. Correct. Actually, MSYS2 was created for building MinGW projects which *build system* require a POSIX environment (autoconf, for instance). The build products themselves do not depend on MSYS2 (unless you explicitly use a toolchain that creates MSYS2 executables instead of the MinGW toolchain, something only the MSYS2 maintainers usually do.) > Gotcha. I've now added C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\bin to Path, though, > because it seems magit needs it. (That may be a bug, but that's a > topic for another forum.) Magit will be fine without the directory of git.exe on PATH if you set magit-git-executable to "C:/Program Files/Git/cmd/bin/git.exe" > Thanks for your help, I have a much better idea of what I'm doing now. You're welcome.