Re: MinGW build on master fails with Error 127

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:23:05 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > And the MinGW64 folks now informed me that MinGW64 switched to
> > Windows 10 as the default target about a year ago.  See
> >
> >   
> > https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/14573#issuecomment-1364569522
> >
> > Which in practice means building with MinGW64 on versions of
> > MS-Windows older than 10 is no longer safe ore recommended.
> >
> > I updated the installation instructions and PROBLEMS to that effect.
> 
> As I just commented on the Github discussion, MinGW-w64 just set the
> configure-time default for the target OS version. It still supports
> previous versions. Also, MinGW-w64 distributes source, while MSYS2
> distributes binaries. And the MinGW-w64 binaries distributed by MSYS2
> sets the target OS version to 8.1

And as I just replied there, in this case the default targets very
soon becomes the de-facto minimum supported target.  And since that
change in MinGW64 was done almost a year ago, it is reasonable to
assume that it propagated to all the important MinGW64 packages, and
thus to Emacs.