Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch

[Po Lu]

Konstantin Kharlamov <hi-angel@yandex.ru> writes:

>> No, not to my knowledge. Emacs does not cross-compile. It has to be
>> built on Windows, using msys2 and mingw64. The toolchain is free, the
>> operating system is not.
>
> FWIW, neither of them counts as cross-compilation. A Windows app run
> under WINE sees the usual Windows environment, except it is actually
> simulated. Running msys2 and mingw64 under WINE would count as "native
> compilation".

BTW, I wasn't able to build Emacs under msys2 and Wine.  temacs
experiences a segmentation fault during dumping (with the portable dumper).