Re: [h-e-w] Building Emacs from CVS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:12:10 +0400
> From: Konstantin <address@hidden>
> 
> > Install gcc,  from mingw.org.  If you have already installed it, then 
> > you probably need to add its bin directory to your PATH.
> 
> I've done it. I am attempting it with 2 versions of gcc: 
> 
> gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2
> gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3

How about Binutils -- did you install them as well?  GCC will not be
able to compile programs without Binutils.

> So, gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin-2 fails with following message:
> 
> > > C:\Temp\emacs\nt>configure.bat
> > > Checking for 'cp'...
> > > Checking for 'rm'...
> > > Checking whether 'gcc' is available...
> > > gcc: CreateProcess: No such file or directory
> > > Checking whether 'cl' is available...
> > > "cl" Unknown command.
> 
> and gcc-core-3.4.5-20060117-3 fails with following message:
> 
> C:\Temp\emacs\nt>configure.bat
> Checking for 'cp'...
> Checking for 'rm'...
> Checking whether 'gcc' is available...
> gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `as': Invalid argument
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's it: you don't have Binutils installed.  `as' is the assembler,
it's part of Binutils.