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Re: W32 version crashes on C-g
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: W32 version crashes on C-g |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 02:44:23 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: address@hidden (Kim F. Storm)
>> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:49:09 +0100
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> So you lost me there... I just installed MSYS and MINGW, and now
>> you're telling me to run stuff in COMMAND.COM ?
>
> You don't need MSYS, just MinGW.
I see.
> I understand that you were in a hurry and mildly annoyed, and in that
> condition too complex installation instructions may cause a lot of
> grief. But please look closer at nt/INSTALL: the ``complex mix'' is
> described at the beginning, and after that you have sections labeled
> "Confoguring", "Building", and "Installing" that describe the way to
> build and install Emacs.
Yes, I was in a hurry indeed.
> nt/INSTALL assumes that you already have a working development
> environment, and so it doesn't tell how to set up such an environment.
That's my problem, yes.
> I don't object to adding such info (probably near the end, so that it
> stays out of the way of the impatient ;-), but please understand that
> you were trying to climb a very steep learning curve, hoping you will
> be able to do that in about 5 seconds. It's just not so easy on
> Windows.
Well, I wasn't able to do it (*) in 2 hours either...
(*) "it" == "setup a working development environment"
But them, I hadn't read Lennart's advise (I still haven't read them,
as I could use his pre-built Emacs)..
Still, I wonder why the version at ntemacs.sourceforge.net crashes on
C-g. Probably a build-error, but who knows? [I'm not going to look
for the answer :-)]
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, (continued)
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Lennart Borgman, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Kim F. Storm, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/03/21
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Kim F. Storm, 2006/03/21
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/03/21
- RE: W32 version crashes on C-g, Drew Adams, 2006/03/20
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eric Hanchrow, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Chong Yidong, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Jason Rumney, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Chong Yidong, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/20
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Kim F. Storm, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eric Hanchrow, 2006/03/18
- Re: W32 version crashes on C-g, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/03/18