Re: XEmacs 21.5.24 compile in XP due to CR LF issue
----- Original Message ----
From: Tsunhin John Wong <tjw23(a)pitt.edu>
To: Rick Rankin <rrankin1424-xemacs(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: xemacs-nt(a)xemacs.org; xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:01:40 AM
Subject: XEmacs 21.5.24 compile in XP due to CR LF issue
Hi all,
First, thanks Rick for the reply
I sort out the problem to be the line-ends (CR/LF) problem of files in the
source files which are all in UNIX formats: this has rendered these
sources distribution virtually "not buildable" in the XP environment (in
order to obtain the NT XEmas) --- because there are so many files for UNIX
to WIN32 format conversion and anyone has to also figure out whether a
file is a binary file or a text file before the conversion
neither of any version of VS .NET nor the nmake in win32 can handle these
unix file format automatically
Does anybody has a suggestion for work around for the CR LF conversion in
order to build in win32?
Tsunhin,
I'm afraid I still don't understand exactly what you're trying to accomplish.
Are you trying to build XEmacs for Windows from source using some
version of Visual Studio .NET? If so, there are several people who do that
fairly regularly, although I'm not one of them, so I'm not sure how much
help I can be.
First, how are you obtaining the source? Are you downloading a source
archive (tar or zip file), or are you getting the source from CVS? How you get
the source can very easily affect the line endings in the files.
Second, I'm not sure how well maintained the Visual Studio project files are.
On those rare occasions when I *do* build using Visual Studio, I do it from
the command line using nmake, not from within the IDE.
Can anyone else comment on the state of the project files?
--Rick