From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Slawomir Nowaczyk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compiling emacs/nt from cvs using cygwin tools Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:47:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20060719214621.214A.SLAWOMIR.NOWACZYK.847@student.lu.se> References: <1153302363.285689.115310@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153338520 7216 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2006 19:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 21:48:36 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 1G3I1q-0004Vd-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:48:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3I1p-0008J9-Lb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:48:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3I1e-0008I4-EX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3I1c-0008Er-OM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3I1c-0008Ef-Jo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:48:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.235.16.11] (helo=himmelsborg.cs.lth.se) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3I1d-0000GC-3M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (slawek@dain [130.235.16.76]) by himmelsborg.cs.lth.se (8.13.6/8.13.6/perf-jw-tr) with ESMTP id k6JJlsOR027644 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:47:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Esmandil_Citation: done X-Mailer-Plugin: Popup Memopad for Becky!2 Ver.0.02 Rev.2 X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25.02 [en] 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:36097 Archived-At: On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:19:09 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: #> > > In my experience the "nt" folder is for MingW and MSVC, although the #> > > docs don't explicitly say that. #> > #> > they indeed dont say that. #> #> I think the docs does say that. Here's the relevant excerpt from #> nt/INSTALL: #> #> * Supported development environments #> #> To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or #> later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW #> and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make. You can use the Cygwin #> ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and libraries to #> build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3, #> include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part). #> #> If you think this leaves the issue not entirely clear, please point #> out where's the source of ambiguity, and I will try to improve the #> wording. It might be worthwhile to add a something like "(if you want to compile non-native binary using cygwin, read ../INSTALL instead)". -- Best wishes, Slawomir Nowaczyk ( slawomir.nowaczyk.847@student.lu.se ) A termite walks into a bar room and asks, "Is the bar tender here?"