Re: Interest in a Cosmopolitan build of Emacs?

[Philip Kaludercic]

Alex <alex@corcoles.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> https://justine.lol/cosmo3/ includes a build of Emacs. This generates
> a fat binary that can run in macOS/Windows/Linux and more, across x86
> and ARM.
>
> This requires a few hacks to work, and is currently on Emacs 28.2.
>
> I've worked in a few patches to update to 29.1, and I'm now using it
> as my main Emacs binary.
>
> This solves for me the problem of using easily the latest Emacs even
> if my Linux distribution packages an older version. I just unzip the
> Cosmopolitan binary.
>
> Is there any interest of setting up a less-hacky alternative? From the
> patches required:

I think it would be better to send this message to emacs-devel@gnu.org.

> https://github.com/alexpdp7/superconfigure/blob/cleanup/emacs-29.1/minimal.diff
>
> , perhaps the "enum" hacks could be upstreamed somehow (or maybe
> there's a better solution, or an improvement to request to
> Cosmopolitan)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Álex
>
>

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Philip Kaludercic