Re: Innosetup binaries for 21.5.32 and later
Vin, thanks for all the help so far. I am not quite familiar with the
responsibilities of different individuals within xemacs.org, so I may be expecting
something unreasonable.
> Lastly, would it be possible to make it a more standard practice
to keep the>> innosetup binaries up-to-date with the source releases (on the beta
channel.
> as well, not just the stable channel) ?
This is doubtful, for me at least. I don't work much under
Windows
any more. I will probably keep my XP virtual machine in the freezer,
though, so the possibility exists that I will be able to make setup
kits for future releases. As I mentioned in another email, the path
to reliably building native setup kits for XEmacs under Windows
probably passes through upgrading the Windows build machinery to use a
free version of VS 2010 or 2013 (or more ambitiously - and therefore
more excitingly - some flavor of mingw).
I was assuming that the stable channel
native windows binary will be built by "someone".... If that assumption is
right, then the same "someone" could build the beta channel native windows
binary. It may not be you, necessarily.
However, if that assumption is wrong, I would like you to know that a heck of a lot of
people use xemacs on Windows - maybe you underestimate the number of such people. If the
build instructions are up-to-date and adequate (using an easily available compiler and/or
a free version of visual studio), several of them (including myself) will be able to build
from source. However, a lot of people would still need a readymade binary.
I just got a new computer. I need to install visual studio, cygwin, mingw etc. to attempt
another build someday. I will let you know what problems, if any, I face. I have got your
contact, and I am sure you would help me out.
Thanks,Biswajit
From: Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org>
To: Biswajit Khandai <b_khandai(a)yahoo.com>
Cc: XEmacs developers <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2014 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Innosetup binaries for 21.5.32 and later
Dear Biswajit,
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Biswajit Khandai <b_khandai(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I hope you didn't have to struggle too much.
Mostly it involved cleaning out some cobwebs from my mind, but I did
run into one actual issue: the new Cygwin texinfo, 5.x, doesn't
include a makeinfo.exe, so I couldn't generate the .info files from
DOS. Also, the .texi files were not compatible with texinfo 5.x, so I
had to build texinfo 4.13a and use that for generating the .info
files.
Have you also updated (and corrected) the instructions for building a
native
windows binary (at least the steps you followed) ?
Well, my scripts worked for me (modulo that texinfo issue I
mentioned), so why don't you tell me what troubles you ran into?
Lastly, would it be possible to make it a more standard practice to
keep the
innosetup binaries up-to-date with the source releases (on the beta channel
as well, not just the stable channel) ?
This is doubtful, for me at least. I don't work much under Windows
any more. I will probably keep my XP virtual machine in the freezer,
though, so the possibility exists that I will be able to make setup
kits for future releases. As I mentioned in another email, the path
to reliably building native setup kits for XEmacs under Windows
probably passes through upgrading the Windows build machinery to use a
free version of VS 2010 or 2013 (or more ambitiously - and therefore
more excitingly - some flavor of mingw).
- Vin
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