Re: [feature/dll-only-windows] A new windows build, comments wanted

[Andrea Corallo]

Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:

> Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I think you should build --with-nativecomp.  People can always
>>> uninstall libgccjit or rename it if they don't want to use native
>>> compilation.
>>
>> ATM if using --with-nativecomp libgccjit is not present (or non
>> functional) we stop at configure time with an error.  I guess that's one
>> of the hairs we'll have to split then :)
>
>
> I think there are two hairs here. Having an emacs compiled with
> nativecomp behave cleanly if libgccjit is not available at runtime.

Right, at this stage this should be easy to implement (on Windows).

> And having a runtime mechanism for switching nativecomp of totally
> even if it is compiled in.

We should define "switching nativecomp of" and the triggering mechanism,
this might be already implmentented.

  Andrea