Re: building NTEmacs

[David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com>]

David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> writes:

> Trying to build the latest CVS from source, using MSVC and following the directions
> in nt/INSTALL, the build ends with:
>
>
>         "C:\src\emacs\leim/../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l C:/src/emacs/leim/../lisp/international/titdic-cnv  --eval "(batch-titdic-convert t)"  -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
> Warning: arch-dependent data dir (c:/emacs/bin/) does not exist.
> Warning: arch-independent data dir (c:/emacs/etc/) does not exist.
> Converting all tit files in the directory c:/src/emacs/leim/CXTERM-DIC
> Converting c:/src/emacs/leim/CXTERM-DIC/4Corner.tit to quail-package...
> Invalid ENCODE: value in TIT dictionary
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\src\emacs\leim/../src/obj-spd/i386/emacs.exe"' : return code '0xffffffff'
> Stop.
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~4\VC98\BIN\NMAKE.EXE' : return code '0x2'
> Stop.
>
>
> Can anyone help me around this problem?
>
> I'm trying mingw now, though my gnu make is called "make", not
> "gmake".

Which also fails with:

make[1]: Entering directory `/cygdrive/c/src/emacs/leim'
"./../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -batch --no-init-file --no-site-file --multibyte -l /cygdrive/c/src/emacs/leim/../lisp/
international/titdic-cnv \
    --eval '(batch-titdic-convert t)' \
    -dir quail ./CXTERM-DIC
Warning: arch-dependent data dir (c:/emacs/bin/) does not exist.
Warning: arch-independent data dir (c:/emacs/etc/) does not exist.
Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
Signal 127
make[1]: *** [quail/CCDOSPY.elc] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/src/emacs/leim'
make: *** [all-other-dirs-gmake] Error 2

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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