Re: Still cannot build native windows version of emacs 23.*

[Eric Lilja]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Eric Lilja wrote:
> > Jason Rumney wrote:
> > > Eric Lilja wrote:
> > > > Here's the full session log performed on fresh cvs checkout (old 
> > > > files removed first). Hope attaching it works (posting through 
> > > > gmane, it's rather big), I can host it if it doesn't work.
> > >
> > >     mingw32-make[2]: Entering directory 
> > > `c:/blandat/editors/emacs/cvsemacs/emacs/admin/unidata'
> > >     "../../src/oo-spd/i386/emacs.exe" -Q --multibyte -batch -f 
> > > batch-byte-compile unidata-gen.el
> > >     Cannot open load file: encoded-kb
> > >
> > > Search the archives for this message. It is a symptom of some problem 
> > > with your build environment, I can't remember exactly what.
> >
> > Good catch, however, I can't find any information that helps me solve 
> > the problem (I googled it). It seems to be a problem when running 
> > carbon emacs (I'm not) or when trying to compile native windows emacs 
> > with cygwin's make (I'm not, I'm using mingw-make).
> Yes, it was the latter I was remembering. Cygwin make passes Cygwin 
> paths to Emacs, causing problems finding files. The same problem could 
> happen with MSYS, as that also uses munged paths to emulate a unix-like 
> filesystem.
> Its possible that a fix for this problem was lost in the unicode merge.

Maybe the people reporting build success under Windows have a "real" 
mingw installation. I'm using cygwin all the way except I'm using 
mingw's make and passing --mno-cygwin to cygwin's gcc, I've been 
building this way for some years.