Re: How to contribute to Emacs Windows(NT) installer?

[Joel Reicher]

Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st> writes:

> On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 12:57 AM Joel Reicher 
> <joel.reicher@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1) Is there anything you would like help with at the moment? A 
> > particular bug or two? (You mention some in the talk but that 
> > was 6 months ago.)
>
> There are a few (three?) open issues that I'm actively working 
> on (this weekend, finally.  yey).  Depending on how that goes 
> trying out the patches (building installer from updated scripts) 
> will be very helpful, if nothing else.   I strongly suspect 
> there are a number of Windows specific issues lurking in the bug 
> tracker however that takes a fair amount of effort just to 
> research (searching Debbugs is something of an art-form).

A naive search turns up at least 40 that look to me to use the 
word "windows" to mean the operating system and not the Emacs 
object.

> > 2) How do you provision/construct your build environment? In 
> > the talk I think you allude to it but never really describe it.
>
> I don't have automation to create the build environment.  I 
> simply install MSYS2/MINGW64 and then run the build with all my 
> preferred options to configure until it stopps choking on 
> missing dependencies.

Ah, sorry; I meant the steps before this: the machine, and the 
operating system.

For example, do you create VMs semi-regularly with different 
versions of Windows?

Thanks and regards,

      - Joel