Re: [feature/native-comp] breakage on build

[Óscar Fuentes]

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> So, I did this:
>
>  - Installed a fresh msys to a clean directory on my desktop.
>  - Dropped the emacs-no-deps.zip directory on top of the mingw64 directory.
>  - clicked on runemacs.exe from windows shell -- Emacs fails to launch
>    because of libgmp
>  - pacman installed all the dependencies of Emacs
>  - clicked on runemacs.exe -- Emacs launches, native-comp fails as
>    described
>  - run mingw64 shell form the mys installation
>  - ./runemacs.exe in that shell
>  - Emacs launches, native-comp works
>  - ~/ and thus ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache is a different location with the two
>    launch methods
>
> I believe that msys is mostly portable and a new installation is nearly
> clean (except for .bashrc and such like).
>
> Conclusions:
>
>  - emacs is picking up dependencies from mingw64 run in either way,
>    because otherwise it wouldn't run at all from the shell
>  - Emacs is picking up the environment from mingw64 when launched from
>    within it, hence the differences in location of ~
>  - Native-comp has everything it needs to run, or it couldn't run at
>    all.
>  - It is missing something from the environment when run in the windows
>    shell.
>
> This is export run inside the mingw64 window. So, lots of options there.

If, at the top of .emacs.el, you add the binary directory of emacs.exe
to exec-path, does native-comp work when you start emacs from the
desktop's icon?

Also, some days ago I sent you an e-mail off-list. Have you seen it?