Re: 64 bit official Windows builds

[Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>]

On Friday, 25 December 2015 07:35:25 UTC, Eli Zaretskii  wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:01:53 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
> > 
> > Are there any plans for GNU to create official 64 bit builds of
> > Emacs releases?
> 
> this simply needs a volunteer who'd be prepared to
> produce the binaries, package them in a compressed archive, set up
> uploading rights to the GNU servers, and upload the stuff whenever a
> new release is out.

I'm happy (this is a relative term when Windoze is involved) to create the builds. I have a virtual Windows image that I use for testing. Can somebody please point me at the exact instructions that I need to follow? Most of my computing experience is with GNU/Linux, so knowing exactly how to set up the build environment would be useful, although I can fumble my way to getting the GNU chain installed, I'm sure.


Incidentally, http://www.appveyor.com/ can be used in continuous integration for testing on Windows. I use it in my free software projects and its a real time saver. If GNU Emacs was hosted on github it would be possible to trigger a Windows test on every push to master (this might be possible as a mirror). I use a combination of appveyor and a self-hosted https://github.com/drone/drone/ to test, build and deploy our continual delivery releases for all major platforms.

So, ideally, I'd like to get the GNU Emacs windows builds running off an appveyor script so it should work with the click of a button.