Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> Cc: corwin@bru.st,  emacs-devel@gnu.org,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 22:36:48 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
> >> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  corwin@bru.st,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> >> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 20:37:53 +0100
> >> 
> >> Anyway, "install-strip" seems not to be a valid target for make!?
> >
> > It is not?  How do you see that?
> 
> The console returns an error:
> 
>    make: *** No rule to make target 'install-strip'. Stop

The top-level Makefile.in has that target, so I wonder how did that
happen for you.

> On a positive note, but mysteriously enough for me, I found in a package
> archive - build with build-zips.sh - a native-lisp/ folder without my
> ado (under 'lib/emacs/28.0.91/)!?  And I checked an Emacs from such a
> build on an "MSYS Windows system" - with the Process Explorer - loading
> .eln files. :-)
> 
> Unfortunately this build didn't work on another Windows computer.  It
> seems that there are not yet all necessary dependencies in the distro
> archive (for example libgmp-10.dll is missing).  I hope Corwin can bring
> some light into the build system.

I hate to maybe take you back some steps, but why exactly do you need
those build-zips.sh etc. scripts?  If the problem is to produce a zip
archive with the products of a build (and nothing else), then I can
propose a much simpler solution, which I use for all the ezwinports
binaries.  Interested?