From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: tromey@redhat.com, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cannot build on w32
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:52:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbd496ot.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Pfb6M-0005fy-Od@fencepost.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:41:42 -0500")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> What about MSYS? Nowadays installing mingw+MSYS may be faster than
>> installing mingw and the required utilities (cp etc). Apparently there
>> is a nifty installer that brings to you a working gcc and MSYS with just
>> a command:
>>
>> http://mingw.org/wiki/Getting_Started
>
> I won't touch MSYS with a 3-mile stick. It's a fork of Cygwin, and
> adds its own bugs and idiosyncrasies. We've been through this more
> than once.
Although MSYS is not perfect, it works fine on my experience for its
purpose: running configure scripts and makefiles. It is not something
you add to your PATH. Just open a terminal window, configure&&make,
done.
Obviously some changes are required for building native Windows
executables with Emacs' scripts and makefiles, but looking at past
experience with other projects, that is simpler than maintaining a
parallel system.
No, I'm not volunteering. I know nothing about autoconf. Some time ago I
volunteered to create a new build system based on CMake, at least for
replacing the Windows one, and it was dismissed as unnecessary.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-19 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-19 15:12 cannot build on w32 Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 15:18 ` Tom Tromey
2011-01-19 15:33 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 15:53 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 16:14 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 16:05 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 16:16 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 17:36 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-19 19:01 ` Jan Djärv
2011-01-20 15:17 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-20 15:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-20 14:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Sam Steingold
2011-01-20 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-21 20:15 ` Richard Stallman
2011-01-19 16:21 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-19 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-19 16:52 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2011-01-19 15:36 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-19 15:40 ` Tom Tromey
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