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Error message when opening Emacs or a file: "fatal error: cannot execute 'as': CreateProcess: no such file or direcotory

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From: Jose Manuel Alcala <josemanuel77.agenda <at> outlook.es>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Error message when opening Emacs or a file: "fatal error: cannot
 execute 'as': CreateProcess: no such file or direcotory
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:13:22 +0000

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From: josemanuel77.agenda <at> outlook.es
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 29.4; error message when opening a file "fatal error: cannot execute 'as': CreateProcess: no such file or direcotory
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I am using Emacs 29.4 on Windows 11 pro 23H2. When I open a file or in the
Welcome page if I do nothing, a warning message appears:

"Warning (comp): x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-11.3.0: fatal error: cannot
execute 'as': CreateProcess: No such file or directory"

If I open a file, this message appears several times repeated.

As far as I have noticed, it doesn't affect the use of Emacs, but this
buffer with these errors appears everytime I open Emacs. I have
reinstalled Emacs in the latest release 29.4 but the error remains.

Hope to help.
Jose Manuel




In GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-07-05 built on
 AVALON
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.22631
System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (v10.0.2009.22631.4037)

Configured using:
 'configure --with-modules --without-dbus --with-native-compilation=aot
 --without-compress-install --with-sqlite3 --with-tree-sitter
 CFLAGS=-O2'

Configured features:
ACL GIF GMP GNUTLS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LCMS2 LIBXML2 MODULES NATIVE_COMP
NOTIFY W32NOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP XPM ZLIB

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: ENU
  locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Org

Minor modes in effect:
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  global-eldoc-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  electric-indent-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  indent-tabs-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: (only . t)
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

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text-property-search mail-utils range mm-util mail-prsvr wid-edit
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Memory information:
((conses 16 449899 22838)
 (symbols 48 27583 0)
 (strings 32 142053 3337)
 (string-bytes 1 3662079)
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Message #8 received at 72880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Jose Manuel Alcala <josemanuel77.agenda <at> outlook.es>,
 Corwin Brust <corwin <at> bru.st>
Cc: 72880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#72880: Error message when opening Emacs or a file: "fatal
 error: cannot execute 'as': CreateProcess: no such file or direcotory
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:21:48 +0300

merge 72880 72055
thanks

> From: Jose Manuel Alcala <josemanuel77.agenda <at> outlook.es>
> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:13:22 +0000
> 
> I am using Emacs 29.4 on Windows 11 pro 23H2. When I open a file or in the
> Welcome page if I do nothing, a warning message appears:
> 
> "Warning (comp): x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-11.3.0: fatal error: cannot
> execute 'as': CreateProcess: No such file or directory"
> 
> If I open a file, this message appears several times repeated.
> 
> As far as I have noticed, it doesn't affect the use of Emacs, but this
> buffer with these errors appears everytime I open Emacs. I have
> reinstalled Emacs in the latest release 29.4 but the error remains.

This is a known bug in the Windows binary distribution, see

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=72055

It should be solved by the latest binary installer, and if not, will
be solved soon.  Perhaps you need to install Emacs 30 for that.
Corwin, am I right?

You should also be able to fix avoid the warning if you remove or
rename the libgccjit DLL that the Emacs installer mistakenly installs.

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