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

[Underwood, Jonathan]

> Even mingw32 tools are Windows programs that need Windows
> paths. Also, the standard configure script would require a bourne
> compatible shell.

But isn't the point of msys to convert unix paths to windows paths as
needed? 
The msys page claims...

"MSYS was created out of a long-lived desire to provide the MinGW community
a Minimal SYStem, with which a configure script could be executed. This is
finally available from the MinGW download area on SourceForge. "

Though i suppose there's questions as to whether ntemacs should be dependent
on msys for building (i.e. if ntemacs was bui;t using the std. configure
scripts, i guess this would stop other compilers from being able to build
ntemacs?). Not sure. Anyway, would be interested to know your thoughts on
this.

jonathan

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> The cygwin build does use the standard configure scripts AFAIK, but
> does not do native Windows display (and probably has numerous other
> bugs lurking due to the fact that Windows is different in many ways
> to Unix-like systems, no matter how transparent cygwin tries to make
> this).
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