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

[Óscar Fuentes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I'd like to keep the Windows package using the default options as far as
>> possible, mostly because I am lazy and because it means that the windows
>> package updates when ever the defaults do.
>
> It's your call.  I just envision many users to expect native-comp
> support and asking why isn't it there.

I agree. In fact, some popular packages already recommend using
native-comp.

>> Currently, we have
>> 
>> --without-dbus --without-compress-install
>> 
>> The latter is so the documentation works without gzip. The latter is
>> because we don't normally have dbus available. I am not sure why either
>> of these needed (i.e. why they are not the default on windows).
>
> The gzip thing is again your call (having gzip in the package is no
> big deal, IMO).  Dbus is not really useful on MS-Windows, so IMO it
> makes no sense building with it.

I think that Phillip's problem with that is that gzip does not exist as
a MinGW package in the MSYS2 ecosystem.