Re: Two strange messages while building Emacs on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2012 11:58:42 +0100
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> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/Getting-Emacs.html
> 
> seems to indicate one uses Mingw on windows to compile Emacs.
> Is that correct?

Yes.  MSVC is also supported, but most people who build on Windows use
MinGW32 GCC.

> I am familiar with cross-compiling for windows on gnu/linux. Would that
> work? 

No.  The configure script and the Makefile.in files don't support the
Windows build yet.  See

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-12/msg00203.html

for more details.

So I suggest to start with the build procedure described in
nt/INSTALL.  That would save you a lot of effort.