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Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch |
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Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:26:29 +0100 |
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Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:
>> >
>> > 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".
Indeed, this would seem correct to me.
In which case, I would revise my answer from "I know that it wouldn't
work" to "I don't know that it does (or does not) work". Emacs mostly
does run under wine and I sometimes test it there.
Phil
Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Corwin Brust, 2021/10/03
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Phillip Lord, 2021/10/04
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/16
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Corwin Brust, 2021/10/16
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/16
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Phillip Lord, 2021/10/20
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/20
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2021/10/27
- Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Phillip Lord, 2021/10/27
Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch, Phillip Lord, 2021/10/20