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

[Fred Kunz]

I would begin with mingw32 gcc-2.95.2 and make 3.77 and forget msys and use
the readme file in the nt directory and see if you can build it using those
tools.

I'm guessing however that you have not run the windows version of configure
in the emacs/nt (emacs\nt) directory before attempting to compile.

-----Original Message-----
From: Underwood, Jonathan [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 12:06 PM
To: 'Jason Rumney'; Underwood, Jonathan
Cc: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!


Hi

Unfortunately i am still unable to build emacs, either the cvs version or
the 21.2 sources. I'm using mingw and msys, and have tried both makes that
come with this system (having excluded all possibility that cygwins make or
gcc's etc are still being used) both through msys, and through a cmd.exe
console window. This is on windows 2000. I am runninging configure.bat in
the nt directory, followed by make bootstrap (or mingw32make.exe bootstrap)
at which point it fails. For the 21.2 sources which i have reverted to, i
get the error :

w32fns.c: In function `syms_of_w32fns':
w32fns.c:13974: `DEFVAR_LISP' undeclared (first use in this function)
w32fns.c:13974: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
w32fns.c:13974: for each function it appears in.)
w32fns.c:13974: parse error before string constant
mingw32-make.exe[2]: *** [oo-spd/i386/w32fns.o] Error 1
mingw32-make.exe[2]: Leaving directory `e:/emacs-21.2/src'
mingw32-make.exe[1]: *** [bootstrap-temacs] Error 2
mingw32-make.exe[1]: Leaving directory `e:/emacs-21.2/src'
c:\mingw\bin\mingw32-make.exe: *** [bootstrap-gmake] Error 2


I would likle to resolve these building problems as i was hoping to
contribute to ntemacs, but i seem to be stuck at the very first hurdle.

cheers,

jonathan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Rumney [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: October 10, 2002 5:32 PM
> To: Underwood, Jonathan
> Cc: 'address@hidden'; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Compiling Emacs on Windows a piece of cake!
> 
> 
> "Underwood, Jonathan" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > As an aside, with the availability of mingw and cygwin, I
> wonder if the
> > ntemacs port couldn't be configured by the usual congigure
> script in the
> > base source directory as it would on any other unix system,
> or is this
> > something to do with keeping compatibility with MSVC ?
> 
> Even mingw32 tools are Windows programs that need Windows paths. Also, 
> the standard configure script would require a bourne compatible shell.
> 
> The cygwin build does use the standard configure scripts AFAIK, but 
> does not do native Windows display (and probably has numerous other 
> bugs lurking due to the fact that Windows is different in many ways to 
> Unix-like systems, no matter how transparent cygwin tries to make 
> this).
> 
> 
> 
>