Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch

[Konstantin Kharlamov]

On Mon, 2021-10-04 at 20:04 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > As the release of Emacs-28 is soon, I would like to look for someone to
> > > take over the role of producing windows releases.
> > > 
> > > I've done this job for quite a while now, since Emacs-25, when I used to
> > > build the releases on windows partition that I had saved on an machine I
> > > use for running Kodi in my living room. Since then, it has gone virtual,
> > > the process has become mostly automatic, dependencies have been included
> > > by default and there is an exe installer.
> > > 
> > > It is not a huge amount of work to just roll the releases but especially
> > > after the last year, it's a more than I have time for.
> > > 
> > > In addition, there are a number of things that could be added: an msi or
> > > msix installer, support for native comp. I cannot see having the time
> > > for this into the foreseable future.
> > > 
> > > If anyone is interested, let me know. Happy to take anyone through the
> > > process and provide as much support as I can.
> > > 
> > > Phil
> > 
> > Thanks for your effort.  One question though: can the builds be made
> > with Wine or ReactOS and an entirely free toolchain?
> 
> 
> No, not to my knowledge. Emacs does not cross-compile. It has to be
> built on Windows, using msys2 and mingw64. The toolchain is free, the
> operating system is not.

FWIW, neither of them counts as cross-compilation. A Windows app run under WINE 
sees the usual Windows environment, except it is actually simulated. Running 
msys2 and mingw64 under WINE would count as "native compilation".