Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Andy Moreton <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Sorry if I was unclear. Initially the w32 build needs to be repaired,
> but the longer term aim should surely be reducing the differences
> between w32 build scripts ans the rest of emacs. This includes allowing
> for additional toolchains (e.g. Mingw-w64, llvm).
>
> Mingw32 and wingw-w64 cross toolchains are available in some Linux distros. If
> developers on other platforms could at least build the win32 port, it
> would make it easier for those developers to check whether their changes
> break the w32 build. It might also simplify building tarballs and binary
> releases.

I agree that this might be good goals, but could please such
development be kept in a separate branch, not on the trunk?