Re: File dialog on 22.1 w32

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> 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


Maybe this can help you:

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html