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: cannot build on w32 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:52:50 +0100 Message-ID: <87hbd496ot.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87lj2g984u.fsf@wanadoo.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1295455993 24107 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2011 16:53:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:53:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: tromey@redhat.com, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 19 17:53:08 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfbHP-0003c0-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:53:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfbHO-00029m-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:53:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=38116 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PfbHE-00026o-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfbHD-0006Nj-Mz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:52:56 -0500 Original-Received: from impaqm2.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.18]:17025 helo=telefonica.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PfbHC-0006Ms-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:52:55 -0500 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost1.adm.correo ([10.20.102.38]) by IMPaqm2.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id xKZ31f00K0piX6q3MUssTo; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:52:52 +0100 Original-Received: from qcore ([88.13.104.24]) by IMPmailhost1.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id xUsq1f0170XbiK41hUsqm7; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:52:52 +0100 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-original-sender: 981711563@telefonica.net In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:41:42 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:134763 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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.