Re: Emacs build fails on Windows mingw64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: andrewjmoreton@gmail.com, bug-gnulib@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 13:05:32 -0400
> 
> On 10/24/21 9:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We could try all that, but not on the release branch.  There, I'd like
> > a simple and safe fix.  Is such a thing possible?
> 
> Andy suggested a simple fix that I quoted here:
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg01698.html
> 
> We could apply that patch just to ntlib.c and just in emacs-28 (do not 
> merge to master) as Andy says that works for him; and we could then 
> apply the more-systematic patch of 
> <https://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2021-10/msg01697.html> to master. 
> Andy's patch is definitely safe for GNU and POSIXish hosts. I don't know 
> whether it suffices for all MS-Windows platforms and Emacs builds.

Done on both counts, let's hope the problems go away now.

Thanks.