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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-12-24 18:46:58 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-12-24 18:46:58 +0200
commit677f6c79eb96e128399e8a0480769ec1fe8240ff (patch)
treea20e7917bd0f5d2b4460238c3c87f3b92f1050b1
parent7723af5e4aa8304e244c285d489ca733b8a6cac3 (diff)
downloademacs-677f6c79eb9.tar.gz
; Update minimum requirements of MinGW-w64
* etc/PROBLEMS (Dumping): * nt/INSTALL.W64: Update the minimum OS version supported by MinGW-w64.
-rw-r--r--etc/PROBLEMS12
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL.W647
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/etc/PROBLEMS b/etc/PROBLEMS
index 2169ed0f80b..634480cce7d 100644
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS
@@ -3479,6 +3479,18 @@ with development builds, since the .elc files are pre-compiled in releases.
** Dumping
+*** temacs.exe fails to run when invoked by the build for dumping
+
+The error message might be something like
+
+ make[2]: *** [Makefile:915: bootstrap-emacs.pdmp] Error 127
+
+This happens if you try to build Emacs on versions of MS-Windows older
+than the minimum version supported by MinGW-w64. As of Dec 2022, the
+minimum supported Windows version is 8.1, and the computer hardware
+(CPU, memory, disk) should also match the minimum Windows 8.1
+requirements.
+
*** Segfault during 'make'
If Emacs segfaults when 'make' executes one of these commands:
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
index 9261c82db1b..26420214b79 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
+++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
This document describes how to compile a 64-bit GNU Emacs using MSYS2
and MinGW-w64. For instructions for building a 32-bit Emacs using
-MSYS and MinGW, see the file INSTALL in this directory.
+MSYS and mingw.org's MinGW, see the file INSTALL in this directory.
Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin, use the normal
installation instructions in ../INSTALL.
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ installation instructions in ../INSTALL.
The total space required is 3GB: 1.8GB for MSYS2 / MinGW-w64 and 1.2GB for
Emacs with the full repository, or less if you're using a release tarball.
+As of December 2022, the minimum supported system, both for building
+Emacs with the MSYS2/MinGW-w64 toolchain and for running the produced
+binary, is Windows 8.1. The computer hardware should also match the
+Microsoft requirements for Windows 8.1.
+
* Set up the MinGW-w64 / MSYS2 build environment
MinGW-w64 provides a complete runtime for projects built with GCC for 64-bit