From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Loreno Heer <helohe@bluewin.ch>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:31:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sfh424ya.fsf@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835ye06ex7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:43:00 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:18:02 +0100
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> From: Loreno Heer <helohe@bluewin.ch>
>>
>> I did and if I understand it correctly they basically say that they did
>> some change but it is now up to emacs to change the build behavior:
>>
>> https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/14573#issuecomment-1364532147
>
> Are you building Emacs on Windows 7? If yes, I understand what they
> are saying: that MinGW64 no longer supports Windows 7.
Please note that MinGW-w64 and MSYS2 (which includes MINGW-packages) are
different projects. MSYS2 builds, packages and distributes MinGW-w64.
MSYS2 decided to bump _WIN32_WINNT in our build scripts, which has
implications for Emacs (see below) but that's independent of what
MinGW-w64 actually, officially supports.
> If you build on a later version of Windows, then I don't understand
> what they are saying:
>
> As examples mentioned on #14452 illustrate, a package can support
> Win7 fine but if we say to its build system that we target >Win7 the
> resulting binary may be incompatible with Win7. This means in
> practice that Emacs (or any other software) can't rely on using our
> packages as runtime dependencies for supporting Win7.
I wrote the text you quote above, so I'll explain.
Some packages (including the MinGW-w64 runtime) implement compile-time
conditionals for preferring certain APIs over others depending on the
target OS version. So once we start distributing binary packages built
with the bumped _WIN32_WINNT value, some Emacs dependencies may fail to
run on Windows 7.
Which is basically what you say here:
> Emacs will support MS-Windows versions as old as Windows 9X, as long
> as the MinGW headers and runtime support those versions. If your
> MinGW supports only Windows versions newer than some version N, then
> Emacs cannot magically overcome this limitation, and will also support
> only versions of Windows newer than N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-24 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-12 15:26 MinGW build on master fails with Error 127 Loreno Heer
2022-12-12 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12 15:44 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-12 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12 16:03 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-12 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-12 16:54 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-23 21:45 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-24 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 14:18 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-24 14:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 15:11 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-24 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 22:50 ` Loreno Heer
2022-12-24 15:31 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2022-12-24 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 16:14 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 16:58 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 17:08 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 17:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 17:57 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 18:56 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-25 2:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-25 8:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-25 14:25 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-26 13:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-26 13:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 19:19 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-25 0:13 ` Po Lu
2022-12-25 0:48 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-25 6:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 18:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 19:23 ` Óscar Fuentes
2022-12-24 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-12-24 19:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
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