Re: make on Windows vs. Linux

[Christoph]

On 7/10/2010 9:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Is there any good reason why the Windows make could not result in Emacs
> > runnable 'in-place' out-of-the-box? And make install could add the
> > shortcut and (if applicable) move the appropriate files to the directory
> > specified as the install path during configure?
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
>
> I think you are missing the fact that you can run Emacs in-place from
> a subdirectory of src:
>
>     src\oo\i386\emacs -Q

Duh! OK, I was running 'runemacs.exe' from nt\oo-spd\i386, which didn't 
work and it didn't even occur to me to look in the src\ directory.

Thanks Eli. This works fine.

Christoph