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: Some comments on the MSYS-based build Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87obbi2emd.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: <87hahfysx4.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a9n2uxn9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370614418 21269 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2013 14:13:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:13:38 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 07 16:13:38 2013 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 1UkxQ9-0005Gj-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxQ8-0004hd-SD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40212) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxQ4-0004h2-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:13:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxPz-0000yK-Sc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39816) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxPz-0000yD-LF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 10:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkxPx-000589-Fk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:25 +0200 Original-Received: from 237.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([83.43.53.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:25 +0200 Original-Received: from ofv by 237.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Jun 2013 16:13:25 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 47 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 237.red-83-43-53.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:smkU8b7Y2sGrKjE+twhEihny7Ho= 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:160216 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> /nt/INSTALL.MSYS says >> >> "A nice GUI installer, called mingw-get," >> >> mingw-get has no GUI yet. It is a planned feature. However, >> mingw-get-inst (confusing, uh?) is a GUI front-end that invokes >> mingw-get for MinGW/MSYS installation. It onlyl supports the most >> essential packages, though. The URL for mingw-get-inst is: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Installer/mingw-get-inst/ > > I removed the "GUI" part. IMO mingw-get-inst is far more convenient than mingw-get for easily installing the required MinGW pieces. It takes less than one minute of human work. I'll try to submit a patch to INSTALL.MSYS explaining where to get and how to use mingw-get-inst for building Emacs. >> /nt/INSTALL.MSYS says that mingw-developer-toolkit and msys-automake >> should be installed. The mingw-get XML file for mingw-developer-toolkit >> says that it includes mingw-automake and the XML file for msys-automake >> says: >> >> This msys port of automake has been modified specifically for >> the MSYS System Builder (msys-dvlpr) environment; that is, it is >> intended to be used only when producing binary packages for the MSYS >> subsystem. If you intend to produce executables for the native >> "mingw32" subsystem (that is, applications that should work on >> Microsoft Windows installations without the MSYS dll), then you should >> install the mingw32-automake-*, and/or the mingw32-automake1.NN-* >> packages instead. >> >> so it seems that msys-automake is unnecesary. > > I removed that. What about autoconf, does it get installed by other > packages, or does it need to be installed separately? If the latter, > I think the only alternative is the one I provided on sourceforge, is > that right? Package mingw-developer-toolkit includes both automake and autoconf. Actually, mingw-get-inst only provides three main packages: compilers (the C compiler comes checked by default), MSYS Base System, and MinGW Developer Toolkit (which implicitly requires MSYS Base System.) The user only needs to add a mark to MinGW Developer Toolkit and he gets everything for building Emacs.