Re: --with-gtk as default?

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     It wasn't. Emacs still does not build with the latest Microsoft 
>     compiler. The solution is to use static libraries rather than dynamic, 
>     but the multithreaded static library was missing some functions we need, 
>     and the singlethreaded static library, which is what we use with earlier 
>     versions of the Microsoft compiler, has been removed from the latest 
>     release.
>
> What do you recommend we do now?  Should we simply say, "Microsoft's
> compiler is broken, so use GCC"?
>   

We should document that the latest version of msvc will not work, yes. I 
don't see a point in putting a lot of effort into supporting it anymore. 
In the past there wasn't a suitable port of gcc to Windows so we put 
more effort into making sure Emacs compiled with every version of msvc.