[h-e-w] Re: emacsclientw.exe bug: random exit status

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kai Tetzlaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Kai Tetzlaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>>> Please look at EmacsW32 documentation at
>>>>
>>>>   http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32Util.html
>>>>
>>>> There is documentation about how to build Emacs on w32.
>>> Thanks, that definitely helped to get started. I had some problems
>>> getting the graphics libraries working. xpm needs some additional work
>>> since simx.h (included by xpm.h) is only available in the source package
>>> of libxpm/gnuwin32 and it's not installed by default in gnuwin32.
>>>
>>> Also i'm still getting errors when compiling etags (s. below). But
>>> emacsclient compiles fine and i started testing a changed version (s. my
>>> other post in this thread).
>>
>> I might have forgotten something. Could you perhaps also read
>> emacs/nt/INSTALL in the source directory to see if that helps? (And
>> tell me what I have missed.)
>
> I found the problem i had during my previous attempt. I had downloaded a
> nearly complete set of gnuwin32 libs including a regex lib which had
> conflicting headers to the ones delivered with emacs. After removing
> those everything compiled without problems.
>
> So the instructions on your page a fairly complete. You might want to
> add a hint of how to get the simx.h header file. And maybe also tell
> people to just download the gunwin32 libs which are required (and not
> the complete gnuwin32 distribution).

Could you perhaps suggest some text for what I should add or change in
the instructions?