Subject: Re: bug#74429: [PATCH] [nt/INSTALL.W64] configure error about missing tree-sitter

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:04:57 +0200

> Cc: Nerd <[email-masked]>
> From: Nerd <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 23:03:12 +0800
> 
> configure: error: The following required libraries were not found:
>      tree-sitter
>     Maybe some development libraries/packages are missing?
>     To build anyway, give:
>          --with-tree-sitter=ifavailable
>         as options to configure.
> 
> https://packages.msys2.org/base/mingw-w64-tree-sitter
> it seems that tree-sitter on msys2/mingw-w64 has two libraries
> mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter and mingw-w64-x86_64-tree-sitter
> ---
>  nt/INSTALL.W64 | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> index 9694e85f269d..87eecff779a0 100644
> --- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
> +++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
> @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ packages (you can copy and paste it into the shell with Shift + Insert):
>    mingw-w64-x86_64-harfbuzz \
>    mingw-w64-x86_64-libgccjit \
>    mingw-w64-x86_64-sqlite3 \
> +  mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter \
>    mingw-w64-x86_64-tree-sitter

Thanks.  However, AFAICS the mingw-w64-x86_64-libtree-sitter package
provided by MSYS2 includes the library under the name
libtree-sitter-0.24.dll, whereas Emacs only knows to look for
libtree-sitter-0.dll.  Does installing this package provide
tree-sitter support for you?  Or did you need to rename the DLL to the
name Emacs looks for?  If users need to rename the DLL, we should tell
that in INSTALL and perhaps also README files.