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

[Jason Rumney]

Konstantin wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > 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
>
> switchig between them by changing PATH to it's bin folders.
>
> 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
> Checking whether 'cl' is available...
> "cl" Unknown command.
>
>   
In the first case, you appear to be missing gcc iteself, or perhaps an 
essential DLL it requires (read the list prerequisites on the MinGW site 
- or reinstall from gcc-full-4.4.0-mingw32-bin.tar.lzma, which should 
contain all the dependencies).  In the second case, you are missing the 
assembler, which is part of GNU binutils and is a prerequisite for gcc.