From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: minor windoze build bug Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:25:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20051119085452.50940.qmail@web35615.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132396684 30102 80.91.229.2 (19 Nov 2005 10:38:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 10:38:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 19 11:38:03 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdQ5h-00054S-QR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:37:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdQ5h-0006da-7m for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 05:37:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdP9D-0005un-Dp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:36:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EdP7e-0005c1-Cz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:35:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EdOyf-0004nJ-QU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:25:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EdOyf-0000y4-Nz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 04:25:45 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-83-130-251-47.inter.net.il [83.130.251.47]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.8-GR) with ESMTP id CZV05871 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:25:37 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Martins Krikis In-reply-to: <20051119085452.50940.qmail@web35615.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (message from Martins Krikis on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:54:52 -0800 (PST)) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:14168 Archived-At: [Please keep bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org on the CC list.] > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 00:54:52 -0800 (PST) > From: Martins Krikis > Cc: mkrikis@yahoo.com > > > > Others succeeded building Emacs with MSVC without moving the tree. I > > suspect that your problem happens because of some bad interaction > > between NMAKE and that ``bit of Cygwin''. I suggest to make sure you > > use combinations of tools which are described in nt/INSTALL as > > successful. > > I tried, but didn't get very far. nmake was complaining about > lack of "sh.exe", "cp", etc., don't remember anymore. May I suggest that you post here a complete transcript of your build attempts? As nt/INSTALL tells you, cp.exe, rm.exe, and mv.exe are required for the build, but sh.exe is not. nt/configure.bat will tell you what is needed and what is merely checked and marked as nonexistent. > Perhaps I'm too clueless about Windoze tools but I certainly > couldn't build it without adding cygwin paths to the Windoze > build-window. There are non-Cygwin ports of cp, rm, and mv. One place to look is on the GnuWin32 site. > Ideally, though, I'd love to be able to build it using pure Cygwin > tools and don't see much need for mingw (other than what's in Cygwin > anyway?). If you want a Cygwin build of Emacs, you will have to use the CVS sources. Only the current development version supports a Cygwin build out of the box. Alternatively, I'm told that there's a prebuilt binary in the Cygwin archives, which you could use.