RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!

[Underwood, Jonathan]

hm, i did exactly that which is described below, and see a pile of errors
and warnings during compilation, and the final make aborts with an error,
althoug emacs.exe is built and functional at the end.

On a related note, is there an ntemacs developer mailing list - my intention
was to contribute to the developement tree once i had got over the building
problems.

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: October 9, 2002 1:16 PM
> To: Chris Lott
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
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> "Chris Lott" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Then I installed the single file MingW executable into C:\mingw and
> > ran it to install the mingw tools to c:/mingw/bin
> 
> I don't understand. What is the MingW executable? Do you mean the
> zipball (self extracting archive) that contains the mingw executables.
> 
> > I put c:\mingw\bin into my path and restarted my bash shell to read
> > the new path
> >
> > I tried building at this point, but it failed because the Gnu make
> > that comes comes Cygwin has problems with the emacs source. So I
> > found a version on the web (it took two tries: I finally found a
> > 3.77 on the web-- 3.75 and 3.80 failed) that was already compiled
> > and dropped it into the c:\mingw\bin as gmake.exe
> 
> If you unpack the archive then the directory c:\mingw\bin should
> contain the _mingw_ make program. This make program works fine with
> DOS filenames.
> 
> From the emacs/nt/INSTALL file:
> 
>     mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1:        okay          okay 
> 
> 
> > Success! I then started it using my usual shortcut and 
> everything works fine
> > with my old configuration...
> 
> Great!
> 
> Harald
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