Re: Installing XEmacs under Cygwin

Dear Henry, Mats et al,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:07 AM, Henry S. Thompson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Mats Lidell writes:
>
> >>>>>> Henry S Thompson <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> These have not been official integrated because I have not yet been
> >> able to get a compilation with a freely-available Microsoft compiler
> >> to work.
> >
> > Do we really need that in order to push the fix for 64 bit cygwin?
>
> That was my understanding of Vin's comments back in April, yes.
>
> > Freely available Microsoft compiler sounds like the native build to
> > me (which is another deal than the cygwin build right?)
>
> Yes and yes.
>

I don't think breaking the 32-bit Windows native build in order to build
the 64-bit Cygwin build is progress.

That said, I very much want to be able to build with a more modern
compiler, so if I could get the native Windows build to work with the
(newly-released!!) VS_community, I think our chances of getting a set of
sources which will build both natively and on Cygwin go up.  My goal was to
port to the latest freely-available VS (now 2015) this summer.  Taking a
new job has slowed my progress on this, but I still think it's achievable.



> > Anyway. I'm back in office next week and can then assist better in
> > these issues when I get in front of my windows work machine where I
> > have both environments available.
>
> That would be great.
>

Agreed.

  - Vin