Re: Building Emacs with GnuTLS on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 23:22:01 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > From: Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.dogan@gmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:40:03 +0200
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > >> Line 161:
> > >> error Unknown architecture type "$(PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE)"
> > >
> > > Weird.  What does the command below display if you type it from the
> > > shell prompt in the same window where you invoked `make':
> > >
> > >   set PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE
> > >
> > 
> > Actually, the problem has gone away now after pulling in the most
> > recent changes.
> > 
> > Anyways, in case you want to know:
> > PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE=AMD64
> 
> How could it have gone, if AMD64 is not covered by nt/gmake.defs?  I
> don't see any changes committed lately that could have fixed that.

This MSDN page:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa384274(v=vs.85).aspx

gives a clue: when a 32-process runs on 64-bit Windows, Windows
"fixes" its environment such that PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE gets the
value "x86" expected by 32-bit Windows processes.

So the question now becomes: how come GNU Make, which is supposed to
be a 32-bit executable, got a value that is not x86?  What did you do
differently at those previous attempts to build Emacs?