Re: File dialog on 22.1 w32

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:04:16 -0500
>>> From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
>>>
>>> Using the new release:
>>>
>>> GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222)
>>>   of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
>>>
>>> I still can't get file dialog to to open when I click on File > Open 
>>> File. Instead I see "Find file: .." in the minibuffer. Both Use 
>>> Dialog Box and Use File Dialog are set and saved according to 
>>> Customize. This has been the behavior since 22.0.0. It works ok on 21.3.
>>
>> Jason just posted a patch on bug-gnu-emacs.  If you can rebuild Emacs
>> from sources, could you please try that patch and see if it solves
>> your problem?
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks Eli (and Jason). I'm afraid I could only accomplish a rebuild 
> with the help of more handholding than anyone would probably care to 
> offer. Is there a site that offers detailed step by step instructions on 
> how to accomplish this? I have downloaded a bunch of mingw stuff but I 
> don't even know how to unpack the tar.gz files.
> 
> Ed


Maybe this can help you:

   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html