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


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:26:29 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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



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