Re: Compiling Gnus under MS Windows

[ShengHuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu>]

Frank Schmitt <usereplyto@Frank-Schmitt.net> writes:

> Frank Schmitt <Azzrael@rz-online.de> writes:
>
>>When trying to do make under cygwin (configure works like a charm) I get
>>the following output:
> [well, it's broken]
> >What does this mean?
>>
>>Afterwards I tried to use the make.bat but this one only works with GNU
>>Emacs, not with XEmacs. I changed it so it would search for xemacs.exe
>>if it can't find emacs.exe and it seems that it worked, (at least I'm
>>now writing in my brandnew snapshot oort gnus) but I don't really know
>>if really everything is ok now.
>>
>>Well in fact what I wanted to say was: There's now obvious way to
>>compile Gnus under Window and XEmacs, this must be changed.
>
> Does this really not interest the maintainers of Gnus? 

It is interesting, but I don't play M$ Windows much.

> At least it should be possible to update the make.bat, so it works
> with XEmacs, too.

I've added make-x.bat into the Gnus CVS.

> I would be willing to do this if one would tell me which instruction
> have to be carried out and in which places the compilation under
> XEmacs differs from compilation under Gnu Emacs.

Another solution is to run nmake xemacs.mak.

Yet another solution is to manually change backslash to forward slash
in Makefile.

Hope these help.

ShengHuo