Re: How difficult if I want to compile XE in Mingw32 or Mingw64?

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).