Re: 64 bit official Windows builds

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 14:35:46 +0100
> 
> IIRC the problematic part is to create and distribute a source tarball
> with all the libraries included on the binary package (graphic
> libraries, SSL, etc). This was discussed on the past and can't recall
> the outcome.

It's up to the person who volunteers for the job.  It's quite okay to
upload only the Emacs binary that was compiled with support for the
optional libraries, and expect the end users to download and itsall
the DLLs separately.  It is also okay to upload the DLLs as part of
the binary distro, but then the corresponding sources should be on the
same site.

> MinGW is used on GNU/Linux as a cross compiler for creating Windows
> binaries. Maybe the OP is thinking on this scenario. He is not aware of
> the peculiar build procedure of Emacs, which requires dumping a running
> binary image (maybe this could be achieved running temacs under Wine,
> but modifications to the build scripts are required).

It's a general problem with cross-compiling Emacs, yes.