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Re: compiling emacs/nt from cvs using cygwin tools
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Slawomir Nowaczyk |
Subject: |
Re: compiling emacs/nt from cvs using cygwin tools |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:47:53 +0200 |
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:19:09 +0300
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
#> > > In my experience the "nt" folder is for MingW and MSVC, although the
#> > > docs don't explicitly say that.
#> >
#> > they indeed dont say that.
#>
#> I think the docs does say that. Here's the relevant excerpt from
#> nt/INSTALL:
#>
#> * Supported development environments
#>
#> To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or
#> later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
#> and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make. You can use the Cygwin
#> ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and libraries to
#> build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3,
#> include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part).
#>
#> If you think this leaves the issue not entirely clear, please point
#> out where's the source of ambiguity, and I will try to improve the
#> wording.
It might be worthwhile to add a something like "(if you want to
compile non-native binary using cygwin, read ../INSTALL instead)".
--
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Slawomir Nowaczyk
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Re: compiling emacs/nt from cvs using cygwin tools, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/19