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* nt/INSTALL.W64: update instructions for setting up W64 environment

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Óscar Fuentes 2022-12-25 03:18:28 +01:00
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@ -27,22 +27,16 @@ MinGW-w64 provides a complete runtime for projects built with GCC for 64-bit
Windows -- it's located at https://mingw-w64.org/.
MSYS2 is a Cygwin-derived software distribution for Windows which provides
build tools for MinGW-w64 -- see https://msys2.github.io/.
build tools for MinGW-w64 -- see https://msys2.org/.
** Download and install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2
You can download the x86_64 version of MSYS2 (i.e. msys2-x86_64-<date>.exe)
from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/x86_64
Run this file to install MSYS2 in your preferred directory, e.g. the default
C:\msys64 -- this will install MinGW-w64 also. Note that directory names
containing spaces may cause problems.
Go to https://msys2.org and follow the instructions. It is not
necessary to install the packages suggested on those instructions.
** Download and install the necessary packages
Run c:/msys64/msys2.exe in your MSYS2 directory and you will see a BASH window
Run mingw64.exe in your MSYS2 directory and you will see a BASH window
opened.
In the BASH prompt, use the following command to install the necessary
@ -122,10 +116,6 @@ put the Emacs source into C:\emacs\emacs-26:
Now you're ready to build and install Emacs with autogen, configure, make,
and make install.
First we need to switch to the MinGW-w64 environment. Exit the MSYS2 BASH
console and run mingw64.exe in the C:\msys64 folder, then cd back to
your Emacs source directory, e.g.:
cd /c/emacs/emacs-26
** Run autogen