Re: Windows Binaries Release: was The emacs-28 release branch

[Phillip Lord]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>
>> As the release of Emacs-28 is soon, I would like to look for someone to
>> take over the role of producing windows releases.
>>
>> I've done this job for quite a while now, since Emacs-25, when I used to
>> build the releases on windows partition that I had saved on an machine I
>> use for running Kodi in my living room. Since then, it has gone virtual,
>> the process has become mostly automatic, dependencies have been included
>> by default and there is an exe installer.
>>
>> It is not a huge amount of work to just roll the releases but especially
>> after the last year, it's a more than I have time for.
>>
>> In addition, there are a number of things that could be added: an msi or
>> msix installer, support for native comp. I cannot see having the time
>> for this into the foreseable future.
>>
>> If anyone is interested, let me know. Happy to take anyone through the
>> process and provide as much support as I can.
>>
>> Phil
>
> Thanks for your effort.  One question though: can the builds be made
> with Wine or ReactOS and an entirely free toolchain?


No, not to my knowledge. Emacs does not cross-compile. It has to be
built on Windows, using msys2 and mingw64. The toolchain is free, the
operating system is not.

Phil