Re: Emacs costs 100M memory on Windows XP

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric Lilja <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:31:23 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 19:02:58 +0800
> >> From: "Zhang Wei" <address@hidden>
> >>
> >> On Windows XP, with font backend enabled, Emacs costs 100M or more
> >> memory
> > 
> > How did you work around the problem with charprop.el and other files
> > generated by admin/unidata-gen.el?  Did you generate those files
> > manually, outside "make bootstrap"?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I'm also unable to build on windows with --enable-font-backend (haven't 
> tried without yet), it fails because No rule to make target 
> `../lisp/international/charprop.el'.

This happens because the Windows build does not run
admin/unidata/Makefile.  I'm working on fixing that.

> I'm also wondering what --enable-font-backend does on windows...

Same here.