From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: W32 version crashes on C-g Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:42:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142682164 11406 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2006 11:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 11:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 18 12:42:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZpQ-0004BN-8l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:42:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZpP-0002Ik-O0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:42:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZpB-0002FB-I6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZp9-0002Cq-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKZp9-0002Cg-Hy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:42:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.17] (helo=gandalf.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FKZuF-0000Jv-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:47:39 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il (nitzan.inter.net.il [192.114.186.20]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.1-GA) with ESMTP id IEL19285; Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:42:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-248-61.inter.net.il [84.228.248.61]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id CXN17596 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 13:42:06 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Juanma Barranquero" In-reply-to: (lekktu@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:51801 Archived-At: > Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 07:00:03 +0100 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I think nt/INSTALL should be gradually refined. Please feel free to suggest such refinements. > It already has a lot of good stuff; what it is not, however, is a > step-by-step guide. It's supposed to be, and I think it comes close. > So at this moment, anyone wanting to build on Emacs has to be brave, > and willing to invest a bit of time and also be able to track things > down by h(im|er)self. I disagree. When I first built Emacs on Windows, I didn't need anything except setting up a working development environment. After that, Emacs configured and built like a charm. (The only issue was the 3rd party image libraries that had incompatible headers. But that's hardly a problem with Emacs.) I didn't need any bravery. > I have a little experience building on Emacs, and yet > I find so cumbersome setting up the building environment I find it very simple, perhaps because the first thing I do is download GCC, Binutils, and every other ported GNU package (Coreutils, Sed, Grep, Gawk, Make, Texinfo, Diffutils, and Patch) one needs for decent development. Note that nt/INSTALL currently doesn't aim at explaining how to set up a working development environment, only what add-ons to an already working environment one will need to build Emacs. INSTALL assumes that you can already compile C programs on Windows (that wasn't true for Kim), so you only need to be told to get rm.exe and such likes.