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Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows
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Andy Moreton |
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Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows |
Date: |
Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:40:30 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (windows-nt) |
On Wed 26 Jan 2011, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Until now, building Emacs for Windows did not require Sed. I see the
> following possible ways to deal with this:
[...]
> I don't like asking every end user to have Sed, especially since many
> Windows ports of Sed are notoriously broken (I had to port it myself
> to get a reliable tool). And since 3) sounds like wheel reinvention,
> I tend to alternative 2).
>
> Comments and ideas are welcome.
Although Cygwin and MSYS are widely used for building emacs for Windows,
I agree that option 2) is the best. The maintainer-only rules
for generating the pre-canned configuration and headers should minimise
the doffernces from the standard POSIX makefile infrastructure as far as
possible.
In a perfect world, this would allow the use of mingw32 or mingw-w64
cross compilers to build Windows emacs binaries on POSIX hosts.
What can I do to help this happen ?
AndyM
Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows, Sam Steingold, 2011/01/27