Since GNU Emacs for w32 was compiled by Mingw, I just wondering if it is possible for XEmacs for w32 also compiled with Mingw.

> Since GNU Emacs for w32 was compiled by Mingw, I just wondering if it is > possible for XEmacs for w32 also compiled with Mingw. I spent several hours on trying to compile XEmacs with mingw32 a year or two ago, without much joy.

Hello list, Could someone of you give me a light on the data type URawbyte and Rawbyte used in ntheap.c and symbols.c? Such as what's the purpose of these data types? What are the definition of them? I can't find the definition in either mingw system headers nor xemacs source code. I've also tried google for URawbyte but get nothing but XEmacs source repository at bitbucket. :( On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt;wrote: > Vin Shelton writes: > > > > Since GNU Emacs for w32 was compiled by Mingw, I just wondering if > it is > > > possible for XEmacs for w32 also compiled with Mingw. > > > > I spent several hours on trying to compile XEmacs with mingw32 a year > > or two ago, without much joy. > > Like Vin, I think it would be nice if it were to happen. > > However, from what I hear over on emacs-devel, the MinGW port is > pretty much a completely separate effort from the other ports. The > build infrastructure is completely different from either VC or POSIX > (including Cygwin) GCC, configure requires special care because of the > special MinGW treatment of MS DOS drive letters, and the 3rd-party > libraries aren't binary compatible with Cygwin or VC, so you need > MinGW builds of any 3rd-party libraries you want to use. > > I would suggest starting by turning off all the extra libraries you > can (eg, all image libraries, X and tty support, and so on). >