From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: compiling emacs using cygwin Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 13:35:12 -0700 Message-ID: <871wh3fhmn.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: <46585cfc$1_4@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180211927 19445 80.91.229.12 (26 May 2007 20:38:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 20:38:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 26 22:38:46 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hs32D-00061w-6G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:38:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs32C-0004Ai-NE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:38:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs31z-00047B-MS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs31y-00044p-Pr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs31y-00044e-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hs31y-0003io-A8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 16:38:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Hs31o-0001L7-BU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:38:20 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 26 May 2007 22:38:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.99 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s4j5v1tjRvA7iCCGb8sK3uRO6mU= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44469 Archived-At: I've found building Emacs on Windows to be difficult, although I've written down what works on http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BuildingOnWindowsTableofContents. You seem to be trying to build a "native Windows" binary, as opposed to a Cygwin binary. Is that right? If so, I suggest you use MingW and follow the instructions at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/BuildingCvsWThirtyTwoMingw -- it works for me. If that fails, you can always try getting a pre-built binary from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ntemacs/ntemacs22-bin-20070102.exe?download -- it's a few months old but the binaries at that site have always worked fine for me. If you want to build a Cygwin binary, install gcc 4 from source (yes, that's a pain, but it works "out of the box") and then build Emacs with the usual Unix-style "./configure; make" (i.e., use ./configure instead of nt/configure.bat). -- Keaton, Chaplin, Garbo - let them now make room for Gromit. A. O. Scott, in The New York Times