Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!

[Harald . Maier . BW]

"Underwood, Jonathan" <address@hidden> writes:

> As an aside, with the availability of mingw and cygwin, I wonder if
> the ntemacs port couldn't be configured by the usual congigure
> script in the base source directory as it would on any other unix
> system, or is this something to do with keeping compatibility with
> MSVC ?

This will produce nowadays a cygwin emacs. I tried it, really
funny. You can it now install from the cygwin install program. The
patches are submitted to the developers.

Anyway as far as I can see the problems are primarily only related to
the file name problem:

  c:/tmp versus /cygdrive/c/tmp

Harald