From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows build failure Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:44:18 +0300 Message-ID: <83k3ienvtp.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83wqmeocl5.fsf@gnu.org> <83six2oans.fsf@gnu.org> <87a9jafgpr.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1379508286 20186 80.91.229.3 (18 Sep 2013 12:44:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 12:44:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sean Sieger Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 18 14:44:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VMH7g-0007rl-LJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:44:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46682 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMH7g-0005V8-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:44:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMH7K-00057c-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:44:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMH7E-0005w2-6r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:44:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:38066) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VMH7D-0005vf-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MTB00A00N21VB00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:44:18 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MTB00A4DNDTS970@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:44:18 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87a9jafgpr.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163431 Archived-At: > From: Sean Sieger > Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 08:37:52 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > MINGW RUNTIME VERSION 4 IS BINARY INCOMPATIBLE WITH EVERY IMAGE AND > OTHER 3RD PARTY LIBRARY OUT THERE! DO NOT USE IT IF YOU CARE ABOUT > YOUR EMACS AND ABOUT YOUR SANITY! (Or rebuild every library yourself > with this new runtime.) > > So which MinGW/MSYS to use, then? MSYS is not an issue, only the MinGW runtime (headers and libraries) is. MinGW runtime version 3.20 is the latest of the 3.x series, it should be OK (I use it one of my machines). Not sure about GCC, though -- it is not supposed to be a problem, unless the produced executable depends on some DLL that comes with GCC.