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lawrence mitchell <wence@gmx.li> writes:

> I've never compiled a release tarball for Emacs with mingw,
> however, I can offer my experiences for compiling the CVS
> version.  I think the one problem you might find (and that I
> certainly ran into a few times) is the problem of end-of-lines in
> files needing to be unix rather than dos.

This only affects CVS users. The reason the line-ends appear broken
in CVS to Windows users is so they work in the released tar file
(which is built on a GNU machine).