Re: Info: Emacs build using VC 2005 (VC8) failure

[dhruva]

Hi Eli,

On 6/15/07, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> When this came up during the pretest of Emacs 22.1, we felt that,
> given the availability of the MinGW port of GCC, expending to much

I agree. Since MinGW port is mature, as part of GNU, we should also
promote it. I have myself used MinGW for building Emacs and have not
seen any shortcomings (that MS-VS could solve).

> effort on adding VC8 support is unjustified.  You are welcome to try
> to make it work and submit the resulting patches, of course.

I will give it a shot. If the changes are few and easy to incorporate,
might be worth having it in.

> We tried to use libcmt, but the resulting binary crashes because some
> conflict with memory allocation functions.

That is a good pointer, I will try to focus on that.

with best regards,
dhruva

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