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Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32 |
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Wed, 10 Sep 2014 06:22:52 +0300 |
> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 17:03:24 -0500
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
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> >> From: Stephen Leake <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:54:26 -0500
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> >> I had to override the guessed build machine on the configure line:
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> >> $ ./configure --build=i686-pc-mingw32 --prefix=/mingw32
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> >> config.guess returns x86_64-pc-msys; configure rejects this.
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> >> x86_64-pc-msys is the correct host identifier
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> > No, it isn't: it identifies an MSYS program, not a MinGW program.
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> Yes, and the _host_ is MSYS bash.
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> The _build_ (ie target) is MinGW. Which is why I used --build, not --host.
Since MSYS2's main purpose is to build MinGW programs, it should
produce a MinGW targeted triplet by default. At least that's what
MSYS does.