bug#74429: [PATCH] [nt/INSTALL.W64] configure error about missing tree-sitter

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Cc: 74429@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:04:57 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Cc: Nerd <hiweedmandriva3@163.com>
> > From: Nerd <hiweedmandriva3@163.com>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:03:12 +0800
> > 
> > configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
> >      tree-sitter
> >     Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
> >     To build anyway, give:
> >          --with-tree-sitter=ifavailable
> >         as options to configure.
> > 
> > https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-tree-sitter
> > it seems that tree-sitter on msys2/mingw-w64 has two libraries
> > mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter and mingw-w64-x86_64-tree-sitter
> > ---
> >  nt/INSTALL.W64 | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> > index 9694e85f269d..87eecff779a0 100644
> > --- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
> > +++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> > @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ packages (you can copy and paste it into the shell with Shift + Insert):
> >    mingw-w64-x86_64-harfbuzz \
> >    mingw-w64-x86_64-libgccjit \
> >    mingw-w64-x86_64-sqlite3 \
> > +  mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter \
> >    mingw-w64-x86_64-tree-sitter
> 
> Thanks.  However, AFAICS the mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter package
> provided by MSYS2 includes the library under the name
> libtree-sitter-0.24.dll, whereas Emacs only knows to look for
> libtree-sitter-0.dll.  Does installing this package provide
> tree-sitter support for you?  Or did you need to rename the DLL to the
> name Emacs looks for?  If users need to rename the DLL, we should tell
> that in INSTALL and perhaps also README files.

I've now updated INSTALL.W64 and README.W32 on the emacs-30 branch
with this information, and also modified Emacs 30 to know about the
new naming scheme of libtree-sitter DLL as distributed by MSYS2 folks.

With that, I'm closing this bug.