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Build instructions for 64-bit Windows?

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Brian Burns <bburns.km <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#22240: closed (Re: bug#22240: Build instructions for 64-bit
 Windows?)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 17:02:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#22240: Build instructions for 64-bit Windows?

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 22240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Brian Burns <bburns.km <at> gmail.com>
Cc: chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com, 22240-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22240: Build instructions for 64-bit Windows?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 19:01:50 +0200

> From: Brian Burns <bburns.km <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 01:08:38 -0600
> Cc: 22240 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Chris Zheng <chriszheng99 <at> gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks for the feedback - the updated file is included at the end and at
> https://gist.github.com/bburns/43c9f170361aecee3b71 - Chris added a 
> few comments there. 

Thanks, pushed to the emacs-25 branch.

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From: Brian Burns <bburns.km <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Build instructions for 64-bit Windows?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 16:49:55 -0600

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I noticed recently that Emacs didn't have any build instructions for 64-bit
Windows - I tried the instructions for the 32-bit build in nt/INSTALL last
year [1] but something went wrong at some point (I don't remember what,
exactly). I tried again recently using the instructions from the Emacs-w64
project [2] which uses MSYS2 and MinGW-w64 - it worked well and it was also
easier to get the necessary libraries, as it has a package manager, pacman.

So I thought I would try adapting those instructions to include with Emacs,
if
it would be helpful - the author Chris Zheng said he wouldn't mind, and I
could
post it here or the devlist for feedback - it could go in a separate
INSTALL64
document, if the existing one is too long.

Are there any issues with using MSYS2 over MSYS? I think you can build a
32-bit
Emacs with MSYS2 also, but I'm not sure - if so it would be possible to
cover
both with one document, which might be simpler, but I could start with the
64-bit instructions anyway.

Brian Burns

[1] https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/nt/INSTALL
[2]
http://sourceforge.net/p/emacsbinw64/wiki/Build%20guideline%20for%20MSYS2-MinGW-w64%20system/

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