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bug#13112: 24.2.90; The cygw32 build should disable X11


From: Ken Brown
Subject: bug#13112: 24.2.90; The cygw32 build should disable X11
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:09:01 -0500
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On 12/8/2012 1:37 PM, Burton Samograd wrote:
I didn't realize that cygw32 meant that you use the --with-w32 options.
Cygw32 was something I had never heard of and I thought it just meant
the regular cygwin builds.

I don't think that use of emacs through X11 on windows is a hugely
common occurance

If you build emacs on any POSIXish system, it uses X11 (and GTK+) by default, provided the builder has the necessary libraries installed. Cygwin is no exception. You have to specify a configure option to make it do something different. For example, --with-x=no creates a non-GUI version of emacs, and --with-w32 creates a version that uses the native Windows GUI for display instead of X11. It's this build that has been referred to as the cygw32 build on the emacs-devel mailing list. In the Cygwin distribution, this build produces what's called the emacs-w32 package, as of about a week ago.

Ken






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