Re: windows build help

[Phillip Lord]

Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Phillip Lord
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> But I do the x86_64 building using the MINGW64 shell
>> (i.e. C:\msys64\mingw64.exe) and the i686 using MINGW32
>> (i.e. C:\msys64\mingw64.exe). You might have thought I could just used
>> one -- the build for the i686 would just be cross compiling.
>
> AFAIK, emacs doesn't support cross compiling.

I assumed that only GCC needed to do this (assuming that the emacs
produced can run on the current system).

>
>> So, I cannot do both builds with a single command -- I have to come back
>> in the middle. I don't really understand the difference between the two
>> shells nor why I get this error.
>
> I think the only difference is PATH has /mingw32/bin or /mingw64/bin,
> and MSYSTEM is MINGW32 or MINGW64
>
> At least for me, after doing
>
> PATH=/mingw32/bin:$PATH
> MSYSTEM=MINGW32
>
> in a mingw64 shell, doing ./configure succeeds and I end up with a
> 32bit emacs.

Yep, that's all you need. Thank you very much!

Phil