Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup wrote:
> > > Can you imagine how many mandays get wasted on utterly appalling
> > > workarounds like that?  And of course, this just works on one version of
> > > cmd.exe, and might break on another.
> > Why don't you use perl for example instead?
>
> Chicken and egg.  Installation scripts have to rely on what is there.

But you can build exectutable from perl scripts, or is not that 
possibility there any more?