GNU bug report logs - #7363
Problems compiling newest Emacs 23.2.90 pretest with MSVC 10 Express

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From: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" <pedro.gomes <at> nsn.com>
To: <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Problems compiling newest Emacs 23.2.90 pretest with MSVC 10 Express
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:58:12 +0100

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Hi All,

I'm having a lot of problems compiling Emacs 23.2.90 with MSVC 10
Express. Are there already any already recepies/patches/hacks for it, or
shall I dig deeper and provide some patches ?

 

Regards,

Pedro

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" <pedro.gomes <at> nsn.com>
Cc: 7363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7363: Problems compiling newest Emacs 23.2.90 pretest with
	MSVC 10 Express
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:47:30 -0500

> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 12:58:12 +0100
> From: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" <pedro.gomes <at> nsn.com>
> Cc: 
> 
> I'm having a lot of problems compiling Emacs 23.2.90 with MSVC 10
> Express. Are there already any already recepies/patches/hacks for it

MSVC 10 (actually MSVC 8.0 and later) is not supported, sorry.  See
nt/INSTALL.  MS modified their run-time libraries too extensively, in
particular in the area of memory management, and that screws up the
dumped Emacs too much.  With a MinGW port of GCC freely available and
fully supported, the motivation of Emacs maintainers to cater to MSVC
is below zero, so no one cared enough to overcome these problems.

> shall I dig deeper and provide some patches ?

I would suggest instead to install MinGW and use that.  Of course, if
you do decide to fix the MSVC build and provide patches to do that, we
will consider them for inclusion.  Thanks in advance.

Message #13 received at 7363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" <pedro.gomes <at> nsn.com>
Cc: 7363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7363: Problems compiling newest Emacs 23.2.90 pretest with
	MSVC10 Express
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:07:54 -0500

> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:57:06 +0100
> From: "Gomes, Pedro (NSN - PT/Amadora)" <pedro.gomes <at> nsn.com>
> 
> Ok.
> I'll compile the bundle using MingW to generate a binary which I can
> test Emacs with and do the porting to MSVC 10 over time.

Thank you.  I'm closing the bug report.

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