Re: building Emacs on Msys2/mingw32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:53:18 +0200
> From: Angelo Graziosi <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> if test "no" = "yes"; then \
>    rm -f bootstrap-emacs.exe; \
>    ln temacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe; \
> else \
>    ./temacs --batch --load loadup bootstrap || exit 1; \
>    test "X" = X ||  -zex emacs.exe; \
>    mv -f emacs.exe bootstrap-emacs.exe; \
> fi
> /bin/sh: riga 4: ./temacs: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error
> Makefile:828: set di istruzioni per l'obiettivo "bootstrap-emacs.exe" non 
> riuscito

?? What does "file temacs.exe" says?

> make[1]: *** [bootstrap-emacs.exe] Errore 1
> make[1]: uscita dalla directory "/tmp/emacs-master/src"
> Makefile:379: set di istruzioni per l'obiettivo "src" non riuscito
> make: *** [src] Errore 2
> 
> 2) mingw64_shell.bat (success)
> $ ./autogen.sh
> $ ./configure --without-imagemagick
> $ make
> 
> completed successfully! Maybe the failure I saw before was a consequence 
> of the '-j3' option..

Obviously, the way to answer this is to try mingw32_shell.bat without
"-j3".

> So, which way (x86_64-w64-mingw32 / x86_64-pc-mingw32) is the best to 
> build Emacs on MSYS2?

I have no idea, I use neither MSYS2 nor MinGW64.