Re: --with-gtk as default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:01 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> David Kastrup skrev:
> > Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> >>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> >>> Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:20:03 +0100
> >>> Cc: address@hidden
> >>>
> >>> Cygwin is basically an X11 build?
> >> Yes.
> 
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I think you can also build an Emacs as a w32 
> application with cygwin?

That's true, but this fact is irrelevant to the current discussion.
One can, indeed, use Cygwin to build a native Windows port of Emacs,
but such a build does not use Cygwin libraries and therefore cannot
use the Cygwin ports of X libraries and of GTK+.

IOW, such a build simply uses the Cygwin GCC and Binutils to produce a
binary that is linked to stock Windows runtime libraries, just like
the MinGW ports of GCC and Binutils.

Therefore, the problem you found in the Cygwin build wrt GTK+ and its
use of memalign can never happen in the native Windows build of Emacs,
no matter if that native build used Cygwin GCC or any other compiler.