Re: Making gnulib imports build on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:34:16 +0100
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> 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?

If you assume that this development (if indeed Andy decides to work on
it) will somehow get in the way of the native Windows build, then your
assumption is wrong.  See my response to Andy.