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

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Agree, before we rely on this behavior would be nice if someone could
test it tho.

Best Regards

  Andrea