Re: INSTALL.W64

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:29:40 +0100
> Cc: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>, Stephen Leake <address@hidden>, 
>       Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
>  > Do you believe D-Bus could run on w64?
> 
>  This question should be actually asked on the MSYS2 list, because the
>  MSYS2 project does provide a MinGW build of D-Bus, so I would expect
>  them to test the port and see that it is useful on Windows.  Whether
>  the features it supports on MS-Windows are enough to satisfy what
>  Emacs needs, I don't know.
> 
> But that won't make emacs run with DBus.

Of course, it won't.  But if D-Bus can be useful on Windows, we then
have a reason to provide in Emacs the code which will support that.
If not, working on such code is futile.  That was, I believe, the
reason Michael asked his question, and I tried to answer that.