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

[Phillip Lord]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de>
>> Cc: corwin@bru.st,  phillip.lord@russet.org.uk,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:57:44 +0100
>> 
>> > archive with the products of a build (and nothing else), then I can
>> > propose a much simpler solution, which I use for all the ezwinports
>> > binaries.  Interested?
>> 
>> Yes please.  A step by step approach to building Emacs is probably more
>> successful in the end.
>
>
> I think part of the complexity of dist-build scripts is that Phillip
> included many more dependencies than strictly needed to run Emacs, so
> he needed to put there many programs and files not directly related to
> Emacs.  I'm not sure that's justified, but YMMV.


No, it's not that. The dependencies are now fairly small and now all
essential. Besides the dependencies were added simply by unzipping the
dependencies bundle.

The script that produces the dependencies bundle is rather simpler than
it used to be.

Phil