Re: Windows NT: executables in are not generated properly

[Jason Rumney]

Christoph Conrad <address@hidden> writes:

> In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (i386-msvc-nt4.0.1381)
>  of 2003-07-07 on CLI119
> configured using `configure --with-msvc (12.00)'
> 
> When bootstrapping emacs from cvs under Windows NT the "bin" directory
> only contains an "emacs.exe" with a size over 13 MB. The build process
> had no errors. The other executables are in:

Did you also "make install"?

Actually, I think it is an error to copy the emacs.exe to the bin
directory during bootstrap, as it might overwrite a good installed
emacs.exe with a potentially bad one. It would be better to run emacs
directly from src/${OBJDIR}/i386/emacs.exe during bootstrap.