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An attempt to fix UCRT64 build failure

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Message #33 received at 72335-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 72335-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, YI Yue <include_yy <at> qq.com>
Subject: Re: bug#72335: An attempt to fix UCRT64 build failure
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:34:17 -0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> tags 72335 wontfix
> thanks
>
>> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 22:55:48 +0900
>> From:  "YI Yue" via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>>
>> I occasionally try to compile Emacs to get the latest commits. But on Windows, I
>> only use Mingw64 because it's the only one officially supported by Emacs.[1]
>> When I try to build Emacs in MSYS2/UCRT64, I'll get these outputs:
>>
>> ./temacs --batch  -l loadup --temacs=pbootstrap \
>>         --bin-dest '/d/user/yy/emacs-build/bin/' --eln-dest '/d/user/yy/emacs-build/lib/emacs/31.0.50/'
>> D:\user\yy\emacs-master\src\temacs.exe: Write error to standard output: No such file or directory
>
> The UCRT build of Emacs on MS-Windows is not officially supported.
> And it will remain unsupported until some volunteer steps forward to
> take the responsibility for testing, maintaining, and developing Emacs
> on Windows when linked with UCRT.  I asked several times for such a
> volunteer, but no one picked up the gauntlet.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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