From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, dmoncayo@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:16:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwiwkmxi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ty7c8p4v.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
> From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> Cc: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:09:52 +0900
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Downloading a single GnuWin32 package is much simpler.
>
> Is gnuwin{32,64} generally the recommended way of getting unixy
> utilities on windows these days...?
If you really want something very similar to Unix, you will be better
off with Cygwin.
GnuWin32 is the recommended way of having Unixy utilities if you want
compatibility with other native w32 programs. Cygwin is subtly
incompatible.
> [I don't have a windows machine usually, but I did download the win8
> demo, which I can run in a VM, and was thinking of trying to use it for
> porting some stuff to windows...]
If you get Cygwin, you will find out that most stuff is already ported
there.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 21:01 Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 22:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 22:23 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-10-13 23:37 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:09 ` Multi-platform build system Miles Bader
2011-10-14 0:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:55 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 1:27 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 0:41 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 6:17 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2011-10-14 1:06 ` Multi-platform build system (was: Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS) Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:18 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-10-14 1:20 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:47 ` Multi-platform build system Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 1:43 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-10-14 3:17 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 1:57 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 2:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-10-14 2:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-10-14 5:01 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-14 8:20 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS (was: Emacs pretest 24.0.90) Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-13 23:09 ` Building Emacs on Windows with MinGW+MSYS Miles Bader
2011-10-14 8:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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