Re: Emacs build on Windows: Prerequisites

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
> Thank you all for the inputs. I agree it is much simpler to download
> some extra tools and get the build going.
>
> The following are some of the packages I downloaded to get the whole
> thing going:
>
> For building Emacs on Windows (release/pretest versions):
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm
> To build the info files (from CVS):
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/texinfo.htm
>
> Tools needed by Emacs (optional to get a full blown setup):
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/diffutils.htm
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/tar.htm
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/grep.htm
>
> with best regards,
> dhruva

Thanks. Did you see the page about building Emacs on w32 here:

 http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html

Do you have some comments about that page? Maybe your list is a good 
summary for some things there?

With the Emacs+EmacsW32 distro comes some of the GnuWin32 utilities. Do 
you have any opinion about what to include there?