From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: INSTALL.W64 Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:18:56 +0200 Message-ID: <83d14zundb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87po9t2w96.fsf@petton.fr> <86vaj3x8ms.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y3nnvgax.fsf@gnu.org> <86vairb860.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <87lgjngpuz.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86r2tfb0x8.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509740353 25588 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2017 20:19:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 20:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 03 21:19:08 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQj-0005pK-5Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:19:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQo-000712-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:19:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQf-00070v-88 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:19:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQc-00028y-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:19:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34497) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQb-00028s-W0; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:18:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2544 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eAiQb-0001jh-Bw; Fri, 03 Nov 2017 16:18:57 -0400 In-reply-to: <86r2tfb0x8.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org> (message from Stephen Leake on Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:46:27 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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:219903 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 12:46:27 -0700 > > > ==== > > Note also that we need to disable Imagemagick because Emacs does not yet > > support it on Windows. > > ==== > > > > I have not actually being doing this, but I have been using > > --without-dbus. > > I'm not sure of the full consequences of either of those. Both are not supported on Windows, and both switches should be used if the user has Imagemagick and DBus libraries installed n their system. > > I'm also a little dubious about "INSTALL" -- I use the proceedure in > > INSTALL.W64 with a few path changes. Do we really need two INSTALL > > docs? > > I believe nt/INSTALL is the process Eli and others use to build using > the older 32 bit MSYS. I have not tested it. We could perhaps rename to > INSTALL.W32, but that would be misleading since MSYS2 can build 32 bit > executables. Better would be to rename both, to INSTALL.MSYS and > INSTALL.MSYS2, and perhaps add a paragraph at the start making it > clearer what the difference is. There is already such a paragraph at the beginning of each file. > Or we could merge the two, with "if/then" in appropriate places. I don't think this would be a good idea. The instructions are already complex enough; merging them would make the risk of confusion and errors much higher.