Re: Compiling current CVS Emacs on Windows NT

[Tak Ota]

04 Jan 2002 21:06:56 +0000: Jason Rumney <address@hidden> wrote:

> Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 04 Jan 2002 12:09:35 +0100, Christoph Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > i tried compiling the current CVS head on Windows NT, both with MSVC
> > > and Cygwin.
> > > 
> > > The build process failed in both cases at the same place. It's when
> > > dumping emacs with temacs, the loading of "cl" fails.
> > 
> > Did you do a
> > 
> > nmake bootstrap
> > 
> > the first time?
> 
> Usually a byte-recompile-directory before compiling works, and is
> much quicker.

"nmake bootstrap" is indeed very very time consuming.  Can we make use
of make?  There is normal dependency between el and elc, however the
current way of building elc is simply a dumb batch operation not
taking advantage of the dependencies at all.

-Tak