Re: Native compilation on Windows, was Re: Bootstrap Compilation Speed

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2022 22:14:56 +0000
> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk
> Cc: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>, Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> The problem is that native comp needs libgccjit at compile time but
> also at runtime. To make an executable install package like we have
> at the moment essentially means packaging libgccjit. Which means gcc
> and half of the msys2 toolchain.

We made a point of implementing native-compilation on MS-Windows in a
way that doesn't require such extreme measures.  Emacs built with
native-compilation support should be able to run on a Windows system
without GCC and Binutils installed, it just won't be able to
natively-compile any new or modified Lisp files.  It will use the
*.elc files instead.

Or at least that is the theory.