From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Kevin Layer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Are there non-mingw32 binaries for Windows? Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:46:30 -0800 Message-ID: References: <5c2aca208090e22a5029d348fe2206bb.squirrel@cloud103.planethippo.com> <83mvgxet50.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1479419203 27416 195.159.176.226 (17 Nov 2016 21:46:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:46:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Phillip Lord , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 17 22:46:39 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c7UVx-0006gq-2C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:46:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33400 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7UW0-0003Vz-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7UVt-0003Tr-Si for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:46:34 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7UVt-0004Ds-46 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wm0-x232.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::232]:36923) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c7UVs-0004DJ-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 16:46:33 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wm0-x232.google.com with SMTP id t79so173947947wmt.0 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:46:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=known.net; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wu9wSZx6t7YD5ij+oau78YhJAXv5ZdmHrlgbWNSt6p4=; b=EoaUmDTJ7FZT2IRQQqlUTA3M3XQMsHGGkJUBF3UYoLRrLWFkX8/MwZwgad4sCzQvXv WWZt6FQGUM/4JUlBoRXWqcJjLxDfweCGBUBz4qvOabRkS7A6OjK5SsCSWyiDFo3aMpK0 xXCE0OdFkdd6ywPdLcmfCpNTbatkcJ5EEgtKQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wu9wSZx6t7YD5ij+oau78YhJAXv5ZdmHrlgbWNSt6p4=; b=D4SixUKFRk+MS1W2lDT2ccY7THpcaiu8IsMiJMx4KbVojC0HGas/yL/C7yTYNoAbeT TWa41Bih+P2Z4YxwfLgkIQKoJ3OPEvvjNH2kxzDgUi+SoMSsnuEuyP3kG2bfGJVzkeUQ L0kJanG4iwmU4E0pWCwc/9xOsvyo/YB5fRVCmAeVTtq79NnMwtUsITf4pJxMlb449VO/ qihzMT6QGoGwRoPyGt5eR5xxVijIqiw9IUk10r2IK8/DVz9aLQBPkfU8UmYmQiC+JW6W nfL4HMnrkTaE4UWinFBqWmI/4fF9clrGe0Ngef+p4FDrdCShH7WUGOAaV0knUfeGpFNw fbDA== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC01U6hht9limTCEplUJA6aIHNzhfC2GedCmfn4r3o50napw2wZIGte3JfRxh9aF1cqLRrhTFipq/FfJBKkLI X-Received: by 10.194.246.69 with SMTP id xu5mr3586164wjc.85.1479419191087; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:46:31 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.195.11.200 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Nov 2016 13:46:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83mvgxet50.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c09::232 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:209464 Archived-At: =C3=93scar and Eli, thanks. I'll proceed with the mingw32 binaries. On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Kevin Layer >> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 09:54:55 -0800 >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> I've just never used the mingw32 binaries and the installation is more >> complex. I have been repackaging the older, single-zip binaries with >> an NSIS installer, since it's just easier for Windows people to run an >> exe to install. > > The current binaries are also provided as a single zip file. The > other zip file is for optional libraries that were not available with > previous versions (you needed to install them separately by > yourself). If you don't want the optional libraries, you don't have > to install them. > >> I'm just embarking on the task of updating it for 25.1, and wanted to >> know if the old style binaries were just temporarily missing or gone >> forever. > > What are "the old style binaries"? > >> One question about the mingw32 emacs binary: is it like the Cygwin >> emacs binary where it uses Cygwin mounts? What I liked about the >> native (MSVC) compiled emacs was that it used C:\... instead of /c/... > > No, MinGW produces native Windows executables. >