From: Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru>
To: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>, Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 23:24:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0a4342e2a4c96b7fc9a0257b3028795f708deb46.camel@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgroipcj.fsf@russet.org.uk>
On Mon, 2021-10-04 at 20:04 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > As the release of Emacs-28 is soon, I would like to look for someone to
> > > take over the role of producing windows releases.
> > >
> > > I've done this job for quite a while now, since Emacs-25, when I used to
> > > build the releases on windows partition that I had saved on an machine I
> > > use for running Kodi in my living room. Since then, it has gone virtual,
> > > the process has become mostly automatic, dependencies have been included
> > > by default and there is an exe installer.
> > >
> > > It is not a huge amount of work to just roll the releases but especially
> > > after the last year, it's a more than I have time for.
> > >
> > > In addition, there are a number of things that could be added: an msi or
> > > msix installer, support for native comp. I cannot see having the time
> > > for this into the foreseable future.
> > >
> > > If anyone is interested, let me know. Happy to take anyone through the
> > > process and provide as much support as I can.
> > >
> > > Phil
> >
> > Thanks for your effort. One question though: can the builds be made
> > with Wine or ReactOS and an entirely free toolchain?
>
>
> No, not to my knowledge. Emacs does not cross-compile. It has to be
> built on Windows, using msys2 and mingw64. The toolchain is free, the
> operating system is not.
FWIW, neither of them counts as cross-compilation. A Windows app run under WINE sees the usual Windows environment, except it is actually simulated. Running msys2 and mingw64 under WINE would count as "native compilation".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-16 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-30 18:30 The emacs-28 release branch has been created Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-02 15:58 ` Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 10:53 ` Po Lu
2021-10-04 19:04 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-16 20:24 ` Konstantin Kharlamov [this message]
2021-10-17 0:43 ` Po Lu
2021-10-17 13:45 ` Konstantin Kharlamov
2021-10-20 15:26 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 11:22 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-04 19:05 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-16 10:03 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-16 13:31 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-16 16:01 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20 15:24 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-20 18:36 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-27 19:36 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-27 21:07 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-01 20:47 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-01 21:06 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-02 11:16 ` Eshell requires execute permission on Win10, was " H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-02 14:37 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-02 18:57 ` MinGW Sources, was: Windows Binaries Release H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-02 19:07 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-11-04 17:51 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-11-08 22:27 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-09 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-09 14:32 ` Phillip Lord
2021-11-02 10:47 ` Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch Phillip Lord
2021-11-02 12:05 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2021-10-20 15:16 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-21 0:13 ` Corwin Brust
2021-10-27 21:11 ` Phillip Lord
2021-10-03 1:35 ` The emacs-28 release branch has been created Ken Brown
2021-10-03 6:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-10-03 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 15:01 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 15:34 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 17:14 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 17:56 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-03 19:45 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 21:21 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-03 22:40 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-04 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 13:31 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-04 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 14:45 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 15:13 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 16:15 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 19:38 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 19:40 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-04 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 21:58 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-05 11:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 15:43 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 15:37 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 16:52 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2021-10-05 17:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 11:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 13:11 ` Ken Brown
2021-10-04 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
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