From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: building NTEmacs Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:17:49 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20030221172352.73A8.LEKTU@terra.es> <20030305173936.8AA6.LEKTU@terra.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046885198 5743 80.91.224.249 (5 Mar 2003 17:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:26:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 05 18:26:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qcf4-0001U1-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:26:34 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18qcyz-0008JG-00 for ; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 18:47:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qcYH-0006cy-06 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qcXu-0006X7-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qcXj-0006NF-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:19:03 -0500 Original-Received: from stlport.com ([64.39.31.56]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18qcWr-0005jH-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 12:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.115.123.43] (account dave HELO PENGUIN.boost-consulting.com) by stlport.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.9) with ESMTP id 206228; Wed, 05 Mar 2003 09:17:59 -0800 Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20030305173936.8AA6.LEKTU@terra.es> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:54:27 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.3.50 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:12107 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12107 Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 11:22:16 -0500, David Abrahams wrote: > >> With that branch I am getting: > > [...] > >> Loading help (source)... >> Cannot open load file: easy-mmode >> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\src\emacs\src/obj-spd/i386/temacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff' >> Stop. >> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code '0x2' >> Stop. > > Uh? > > I just did: > > cd \bin\emacs\EMACS_21_1_RC > cvs -q update -C > cd nt > nmake realclean > configure --with-msvc > nmake bootstrap Ah, but the nt installation instructions don't say I should "make bootstrap", do they? ;-) > nmake install > > and it worked flawlessly. Once I do that and the -kb dance with my .tit files (oh, and I had to make lisp/loaddefs.el writable because I checkout with CVSREAD set), it seems to be working. >> Yeah, I've been getting daily crashes with the HEAD. > > What kinds of crashes? It'd be helpful to know. What kind? The "emacs crashed; do you want to send a report to Microsoft?" window comes up. I click "no" instead of dropping into the debugger because I figure the build is surely optimized. >> But now I'm >> addicted to the bold/italic Lucida console font, and if I can't back >> up to the 21.3 branch I don't know what I'll do ;-) > > You can configure HEAD without image support, and it should be fairly > stable. Not production-quality stable, though. I don't think anything I was doing was causing images to be displayed, so there must be crashes elsewhere. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com