Re: [h-e-w] Building native windows ntemacs using cygwin tools

[Paul Whitfield]

Underwood, Jonathan wrote:
> Hi
>
> As far as my understanding goes, ntemacs currently can't be built using the
> cygwin tools because the cygwin version of make produces cygwin style paths,
> which means that a make bootstrap will fail as the dumped emacs expects
> windows style paths (I'm not 100 percent sure this is the reason - please
> correct me if 'm wrong). It occured to me that by using the cygpath utility
> included with the cygwin suite, which converts to and from windows paths,
> this problem is dealable with - see 
> http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#CYGPATH
> for more info. This would then allow a better integration with the emacs
> distribution, since now a conventional configure script could be used for
> generating the makefile etc. Before I actually looked into this, I though
> I'd post this message to make sure I understand the problem correctly :)

I thought that is was possible to build ntemacs using mingw and msys?

Msys is a minium version of Cygwin designed for the purpose
of running configure to produce windows executables.

mingw is a version of gcc that produces windows executeables
(without any dependance on cygwin).



regards

Paul