[Emacs-diffs] Changes to emacs/nt/INSTALL,v

[Eli Zaretskii]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/emacs
Module name:    emacs
Changes by:     Eli Zaretskii <eliz>    07/03/03 11:10:34

Index: INSTALL
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RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/nt/INSTALL,v
retrieving revision 1.44
retrieving revision 1.45
diff -u -b -r1.44 -r1.45
--- INSTALL     3 Mar 2007 01:05:49 -0000       1.44
+++ INSTALL     3 Mar 2007 11:10:34 -0000       1.45
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
        command.com /c configure.bat
 
   3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment.  If you build
-     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler:
+     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using
+     VC++ 8.0 and later below):
 
        nmake
 
@@ -108,7 +109,8 @@
   part).
 
   Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not
-  supported at this time.
+  supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into
+  the libraries shipped with the compiler.
 
   The rest of this file assumes you have a working development
   environment.  If you just installed  such an environment, try
@@ -192,9 +194,14 @@
 
     http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
 
-  and at this URL:
+  and on these URLs:
 
     http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
+    
http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx
+
+  The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC,
+  as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but
+  has more details about it.
 
 * Configuring