From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Le Wang" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compiling emacs/nt from cvs using cygwin tools Date: 19 Jul 2006 02:05:17 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1153299917.871931.46510@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <1153290207.288717.302400@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153302074 6266 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2006 09:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 11:41:14 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G38Y8-0005rh-Qa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:41:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G38Y8-0001J2-9m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:41:00 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.19.59.244 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1153299922 14115 127.0.0.1 (19 Jul 2006 09:05:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:05:22 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1153290207.288717.302400@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.19.59.244; posting-account=j4OimgwAAAALo-2szSZvOyX5OE1uyIeS Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:140440 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:36076 Archived-At: emacs user wrote: > Hi... > > having read various emacs instruction files, I got emacs from cvs, got > into cygwin bash prompt on a cygwin xterm, and > cd emacs > make maintainer-clean > cd emacs/nt > configure.bat > make bootstrap. > try the unix build instructions: "./configure && make && make install" In my experience the "nt" folder is for MingW and MSVC, although the docs don't explicitly say that. Also, I've found compiling against Cygwin results in sluggish binaries. I use MingW, MSVC probably works well too. -- Le