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

[Underwood, Jonathan]

Hi,

Yes building with mingw and msys does indeed work, however mingw doesn't allow for a configure script, hence the configure.bat file in the nt directory. My interest was in compiling with the cygwin suite such that the nt source can be better merged with the rest, by using a configure script etc

regards
jonathan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Whitfield
To: Underwood, Jonathan
Cc: address@hidden
Sent: 22/12/02 19:41
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Building native windows ntemacs using cygwin tools

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