Re: Building Emacs on MSYS2

[Phillip Lord]

Stephen Leake <address@hidden> writes:

> Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
>
> If it would help, I also build Emacs with MSYS2. I have not been using
> the PKGBUILD script, but it doesn't look hard.
>
> So I can help with testing. I have Windows 8.1 64 bit, with msys2
> mingw64 installed; I can install mingw32 if we want to test there.
>
> One thing I'd like to fix; my build of emacs 25 does not display png
> files. The binary pretest install does. I'd like to figure out the
> difference.


All I did was make sure that the libpng libraries were available on the
build machine. The binary pretest needs the DLLs locally, though, or it
fails. Only Xpm is supported by the bundle.

Phil