changeset 35871:1dd3524845ae

Add note about need to specify extra compiler flags with recent Cygwin ports of gcc.
author Andrew Innes <andrewi@gnu.org>
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: