Re: File dialog on 22.1 w32

[B. T. Raven]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:04:16 -0500
> > From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
> >
> > Using the new release:
> >
> > GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-windows98.2222)
> >   of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE
> >
> > I still can't get file dialog to to open when I click on File > Open File. 
> > Instead I see "Find file: .." in the minibuffer. Both Use Dialog Box and Use 
> > File Dialog are set and saved according to Customize. This has been the 
> > behavior since 22.0.0. It works ok on 21.3.
>
> Jason just posted a patch on bug-gnu-emacs.  If you can rebuild Emacs
> from sources, could you please try that patch and see if it solves
> your problem?

Thanks Eli (and Jason). I'm afraid I could only accomplish a rebuild with 
the help of more handholding than anyone would probably care to offer. Is 
there a site that offers detailed step by step instructions on how to 
accomplish this? I have downloaded a bunch of mingw stuff but I don't even 
know how to unpack the tar.gz files.

Ed