From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:29 -0500 Message-ID: References: <2577057e-98d3-41ce-ade2-1496648b09c3@googlegroups.com> <837fk3m141.fsf@gnu.org> <87bn9evefh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83r3ialic7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1451057593 30960 80.91.229.3 (25 Dec 2015 15:33:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 15:33:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 25 16:33:05 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1aCUMa-0003Ua-6s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:33:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUMZ-0006mh-GL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:33:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUMP-0006mS-Eh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUMM-0006wY-8d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:53 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56025) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUMM-0006wU-1N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aCUMH-000337-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.93.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:32:45 +0100 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:32:45 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:W2+tp8GZWpidVdZrUL3r8Q7v+mI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108478 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> MinGW is used on GNU/Linux as a cross compiler for creating Windows >> binaries. Maybe the OP is thinking on this scenario. He is not aware of >> the peculiar build procedure of Emacs, which requires dumping a running >> binary image (maybe this could be achieved running temacs under Wine, >> but modifications to the build scripts are required). > > It's a general problem with cross-compiling Emacs, yes. Would it be viable to shift this step to an installer process, for cross-compiled builds? Maybe even in general, rather than just for Windows.