Re: Merging native-comp and pgtk

[Andy Moreton]

On Wed 17 Feb 2021, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk>
>> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 23:22:40 +0000
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On mingw64 32bit configured with "--wide":
>> >
>> >  - the build fails: bootstrap-emacs.exe crashes when compiling lisp).
>> >    gdb does not produce anything informative in the backtrace.
>> >
>> >  - the "--wide" configure flag affects ABI, so should be included in the
>> >    native-comp ABI hash identifier in .eln filenames.
>> 
>> While this doesn't stop anyone else from doing it, I have just removed
>> support for 32bit builds from the windows packaging process:
>> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-01/msg00661.html
>
> Because it was unreasonable to expect you to keep supporting it when
> MSYS2 folks dropped it.  And since MinGW64 dropped support of old
> Windows versions, which are the main audience for the 32-bit build,
> such a MinGW64 build is no longer useful anyway.

Agreed: when I wrote the above, I was unaware that the MSYS2 developers
had dropped 32bit support.

> But that doesn't mean we want to drop support for 32-bit build on
> MS-Windows.  As long as mingw.org's MinGW supports Windows 9X, we
> should not deliberately break such builds.

Does anyone test regularly on Win9x ? Inadvertant breakage seems likely
otherwise.

    AndyM