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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds


From: Random832
Subject: Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 10:32:29 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> MinGW is used on GNU/Linux as a cross compiler for creating Windows
>> binaries. Maybe the OP is thinking on this scenario. He is not aware of
>> the peculiar build procedure of Emacs, which requires dumping a running
>> binary image (maybe this could be achieved running temacs under Wine,
>> but modifications to the build scripts are required).
>
> It's a general problem with cross-compiling Emacs, yes.

Would it be viable to shift this step to an installer process,
for cross-compiled builds? Maybe even in general, rather than
just for Windows.




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