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Re: 64 bit official Windows builds
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: 64 bit official Windows builds |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 11:05:59 +0200 |
> Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:38:38 -0800 (PST)
> From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
>
> On Friday, 25 December 2015 07:35:25 UTC, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 15:01:53 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > Are there any plans for GNU to create official 64 bit builds of
> > > Emacs releases?
> >
> > this simply needs a volunteer who'd be prepared to
> > produce the binaries, package them in a compressed archive, set up
> > uploading rights to the GNU servers, and upload the stuff whenever a
> > new release is out.
>
> I'm happy (this is a relative term when Windoze is involved) to create the
> builds. I have a virtual Windows image that I use for testing. Can somebody
> please point me at the exact instructions that I need to follow? Most of my
> computing experience is with GNU/Linux, so knowing exactly how to set up the
> build environment would be useful, although I can fumble my way to getting
> the GNU chain installed, I'm sure.
You will find the instructions in nt/INSTALL and nt/INSTALL.W64 in the
Emacs Git repository.
> Incidentally, http://www.appveyor.com/ can be used in continuous integration
> for testing on Windows. I use it in my free software projects and its a real
> time saver. If GNU Emacs was hosted on github it would be possible to trigger
> a Windows test on every push to master (this might be possible as a mirror).
> I use a combination of appveyor and a self-hosted
> https://github.com/drone/drone/ to test, build and deploy our continual
> delivery releases for all major platforms.
>
> So, ideally, I'd like to get the GNU Emacs windows builds running off an
> appveyor script so it should work with the click of a button.
Thanks, but these issues are better discussed on emacs-devel@gnu.org,
not here.
Re: 64 bit official Windows builds, Sam Halliday, 2016/01/09