From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:14:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87ha0h7tuz.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <85mwaayuod.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1410207308 17777 80.91.229.3 (8 Sep 2014 20:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 20:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stephen Leake To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 08 22:15:02 2014 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 1XR5L3-0006tn-GC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:15:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45572 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XR5L3-0002OT-1U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:15:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XR5KZ-0001tW-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:14:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XR5KU-0005RB-8d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:14:31 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:45830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XR5KU-0005Qm-26 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:14:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XR5KT-0006cd-2l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:14:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.41.63.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:14:25 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:14:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 18.red-83-41-63.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zCVuffW3ERowpKkGNobEtmurXLU= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:174098 Archived-At: Stephen Leake writes: [snip] > I have suggested changes to the Msys2 people to iron out the Msys2 > install issues I had. > > > To address the "almost" above: > > I built from the current pretest tarball, > http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-24.3.93.tar.xz > > I had to override the guessed build machine on the configure line: > > $ ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32 All this and the remaining removed text is unnecessary if you use mingw32_shell.bat instead of msys2_shell.bat. There is no need to run msys2_shell.bat at all unless you want to build MSYS2 packages (not to be confused with MinGW-w64 packages, which doesn't depend on msys-2.0.dll.) BTW, the changes you proposed to MSYS2 intall/update procedure also insists on running msys2_shell.bat. That's poor advice.