From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: FFI again Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87iox9luwa.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87hactlmx0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <8261t83f0e.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1381186075 7459 80.91.229.3 (7 Oct 2013 22:47:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 22:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andy Moreton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 08 00:47:58 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 1VTJao-0006Sy-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 00:47:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33756 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTJan-0003mW-N9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57922) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTJae-0003mC-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTJaV-00061n-FK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:48 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:54874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VTJaV-00061d-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:47:39 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av8EABK/CFHO+K8t/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNEAETiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av8EABK/CFHO+K8t/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLDiYSFBgNEAETiB4GwS2RCgOkeoFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="34975319" Original-Received: from 206-248-175-45.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.175.45]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Oct 2013 18:44:00 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 877B56049A; Mon, 7 Oct 2013 18:47:38 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <8261t83f0e.fsf@gmail.com> (Andy Moreton's message of "Mon, 07 Oct 2013 23:14:25 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 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:163977 Archived-At: > Windows systems. Most Windows users do not develpment tools installed, > and would have a hard time to find a C compiler producing binaries with > the correct ABI, and the other required build tools and dependencies. As mentioned, maybe this could be alleviated by providing precompiled binaries for Windows users. Stefan