Re: Installing XEmacs under Cygwin

Mats Lidell <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2015 13:28:32 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Organization The XEmacs Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> Stephen J Turnbull <[email protected]> writes:

> May be prohibitively annoying to use because a lot of the *internal*
> API stuff for Windows is automatically generated and needs to match up
> with the system it's being build for [...]

OK. I need to look into that then. I have some vague memory of some
perl stuff for generating things... could that be it?

> [...] and other stuff is done by hand in the makefile.inc or
> whatever it's called.  Eventually we'll get there, but *right now*
> things break.

Well adjusting makefile.inc depending on what environment you build
for seems to me to be something we can live with. The APIs seems to be
more of a problem.

> If you want to work on the the "proper #ifdefs", that's another story,
> but let's assume for now that Vin knows what's he's talking about and
> Henry's quoting him accurately.

It never struck me they could be wrong ;-)

Yours
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%% Mats