From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Could we include diff and grep (etc.) executables on Windows? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:08:22 +0200 Message-ID: <8336el416x.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83d0dq5t09.fsf@gnu.org> <87tv716v6v.fsf@russet.org.uk> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="219003"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phillip Lord Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 18 17:08:27 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjZi-000uo1-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 17:08:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36348 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjZh-0003Bi-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:08:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44343) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjZa-0003BW-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:08:19 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjZa-0003KM-Bb; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:08:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4064 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iWjZZ-0002RY-L3; Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:08:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <87tv716v6v.fsf@russet.org.uk> (message from Phillip Lord on Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:49:44 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:242379 Archived-At: > From: Phillip Lord > Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org, > mathias.dahl@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 15:49:44 +0000 > > > Depends on what you mean by that (and what you mean when you say > > "MSYS"). In general, quite a few useful programs don't have native > > Windows ports in MSYS2 repository, so you will get MSYS ports instead, > > and that will cause subtle problems, similar to what happens when one > > mixes Cygwin programs with a native w32 Emacs. > > How do you tell the difference between the two? The native ports have "mingw" in their package names. > Are the ones in the Emacs windows download native? Yes, of course. You cannot link a native Windows build of Emacs against MSYS libraries, you'd get unresolved externals because the MSYS DLL is not present on the link command line.