Subject: Re: bug#45821: Emacs UDP support on Windows

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:08:54 +0200

> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  "[email-masked]"
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:22:17 +0100
> 
> >>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 13:23:03 +0000, Alex Matei <[email-masked]> said:
> 
>     Alex> ✅Network tests are passing in WSL Emacs.. => Windows has issues, and might have always had them? 🤷‍♂️
> 
> Thatʼs without a doubt true. Iʼm using MSYS2 to build Emacs and run
> the tests, Iʼve not tried WSL at all. Eli, what environment should we
> be using to build and test Emacs on MS-Windows? I know there are
> legion, and I always forget the differences.

The environment should be native Windows, not WSL.  WSL is Unix
running in a VM.

As for "using MSYS2", if that boils down to invoking Emacs from the
MSYS2 Bash prompt, it is still native Windows, and should not affect
the tests.