From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127 Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <831qoo6c29.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wn6wr5oz.fsf@gnu.org> <0c9519c9-add7-9fb1-ac7f-2f20e1916d65@bluewin.ch> <83tu20r4y7.fsf@gnu.org> <01b7362d-7d60-3054-5590-d4dbbcda76d7@bluewin.ch> <83r0x4r490.fsf@gnu.org> <837cyh71ft.fsf@gnu.org> <832966a5-bd27-76f9-4757-a8c246eca416@bluewin.ch> <835ye06ex7.fsf@gnu.org> <73d873df-5a4c-21a6-0fe1-8ef7c0c80adf@bluewin.ch> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="23765"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Loreno Heer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 16:45:47 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p96iZ-0005zY-7C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:45:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96hn-00060V-Q2; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96hk-000607-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:44:56 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96hi-00020i-Qr; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:44:54 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=3t3W1nacnvxUN7ZUzGrrjFhnYJahbZSeCZiA9gyv4bo=; b=CNuCAcaT+mGL 4P7f9yYw+HRJ0YXu136Y5Coa3PY/TpIvIoMUPqHnbDB1yiIkk3PmFRvHYVtxs1DsyYEjN25WWoVS+ tiS7/0IL+YOQZyzXdhGXq6KAIU1pM7/fZxEaMFmWR+xHwt4vGouvM2oZOOuQa4Ap/35Q5Tn8DaVVN 1M9mmDlqO8zmiEHy9fWADlkDePJ3zB+qa7K0jNjsik4ThsBhfVdcuPucAH1vHqvgWaAGwnHISXjzl jSJtTvyI5OJoikiAmLzDv9HJpec1IogEvlvWoVXKTn2/oOolZmxc9ARGnI1PupKx60jXDvC4cvYeo 1iMbxJiKn6/TR/gKl1bjJg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96hc-0003Ul-3B; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:44:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <73d873df-5a4c-21a6-0fe1-8ef7c0c80adf@bluewin.ch> (message from Loreno Heer on Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:11:47 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:301855 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:11:47 +0100 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Loreno Heer > > > Are you building Emacs on Windows 7? If yes, I understand what they > > are saying: that MinGW64 no longer supports Windows 7. > > Yes I am building on Win 7 ESR. But it looks like I have to switch to > linux soon because everyone drops support for it. > > I think in theory though their build system still supports win 7 or > older just fine. As long as I set that variable everything builds and > runs just fine. In general, when the runtime drops support for Windows 7, you cannot reliably run binaries produced with that runtime on that system. It could be sheer luck that you get away during the build process, and even if you do get away, the produced binary could fail in some weird ways afterwards.