Mercurial > emacs
changeset 35871:1dd3524845ae
Add note about need to specify extra compiler flags
with recent Cygwin ports of gcc.
| author | Andrew Innes <andrewi@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:26:12 +0000 |
| parents | e3bd30e28be6 |
| children | bcb9291d15e9 |
| files | etc/PROBLEMS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Feb 03 18:24:14 2001 +0000 +++ b/etc/PROBLEMS Sat Feb 03 18:26:12 2001 +0000 @@ -16,7 +16,16 @@ Note that this problem does not pertain to the MS-Windows port of Emacs, since it doesn't use the preprocessor to generate Makefile's. -* Building the Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory. +* Building the MS-Windows port with Cygwin GCC can fail. + +Emacs may not build using recent Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin +version 1.1.8, using the default configure settings. It appears to be +necessary to specify the -mwin32 flag when compiling, and define +__MSVCRT__, like so: + + configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ + +* Building the MS-Windows port with Leim fails in the `leim' directory. The error message might be something like this: