Re: 23.1.94 ms windows build failure

[Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>]

Sean,

The problem is that the tarball does not contain the necessary files, 
i.e. README.W32. You need to get these from bzr.

The admin\nt directory to point to is actually the one checked out from bzr.

For example: C:\emacs-bzr\trunk\admin\nt

Since you have the makedist.bat I assume you have the bzr checkout 
somewhere.

Try this:

Extract the tarball to C:\, i.e. C:\emacs-23.1.94\

Copy makedist.bat from \trunk\admin\nt to C:\

Then run:

makedist 23.1.94 emacs-23.1.94 C:\emacs-bzr\trunk\admin\nt

That should do it. You might just have to adjust the directory structure 
to point to your bzr checkout.

I am actually working on an automated way of building and packaging the 
Windows version of emacs. nmake support is giving me some headache 
though, so it could be a little while longer until it is available.

Let me know if this works, I just did this a couple of days ago and can 
help troubleshoot.

Christoph


On 3/22/2010 6:13 PM, Sean Sieger wrote:
> Jason Rumney<jasonr@gnu.org>  writes:
>
>      Should probably be C:\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt
>
> Yep.  That was the last thing I tried, but no, it didn't work.  Is this
> correct?
>
> makedist 23.1.94 emacs-23.1.94 C:\emacs-23.1.94\admin\nt
>
> it gives
>
> Create full bin distribution
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>          0 file(s) copied.
>
> 7-Zip 9.10 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-12-22
>
> Scanning
>
>
> emacs-23.1.94:  WARNING: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>
>
> Updating archive emacs-23.1.94-bin-i386.zip
>
>
>
> WARNINGS for files:
>
> emacs-23.1.94 : The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> ----------------
> WARNING: Cannot find 1 file
> The system cannot find the file specified.
> Create archive with just the basic binaries and generated files
> (the user needs to unpack the full source distribution for
>   everything else)
> The system cannot find the path specified.
>          0 file(s) copied.
>
> 7-Zip 9.10 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-12-22
>
> Scanning
>
>
> emacs-23.1.94:  WARNING: The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>
>
> Updating archive emacs-23.1.94-barebin-i386.zip
>
>
>
> WARNINGS for files:
>
> emacs-23.1.94 : The system cannot find the file specified.
>
> ----------------
> WARNING: Cannot find 1 file
> The system cannot find the file specified.
>
>
>
>