Re: make on Windows vs. Linux

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:47:02 -0600
> From: Christoph <cschol2112@googlemail.com>
> 
> Under Linux I like the fact, that I can check out, for example, the 
> trunk, make a change, run make and then run Emacs from the src/ 
> directory directly without installing it via make install.
> 
> Under Windows, this is not possible. After running make the binaries are 
> not in the bin/ directory. I have to run make install to get everything 
> in the right place. But an in-place make install also adds a Start menu 
> shortcut. For test builds or branches this is just polluting my start menu.
> 
> Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs 
> runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the 
> shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory 
> specified as the install path during configure?
> 
> Or am I missing something?

I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from
a subdirectory of src:

   src\oo\i386\emacs -Q

or

   src\oo-spd\i386\emacs -Q

(the former if you configured --no-opt, the latter if without).