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authorJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2008-04-04 22:06:51 +0000
committerJason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>2008-04-04 22:06:51 +0000
commita25fe2887778cf07cc7d01136c126bf693659531 (patch)
treed1c61875b8551a328196714434502c17e8e58d5f
parentd4417eb006d9957f63809c1d6724b5fae65bdc5c (diff)
downloademacs-a25fe2887778cf07cc7d01136c126bf693659531.tar.gz
Update W32 API requirements.
-rw-r--r--nt/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--nt/INSTALL12
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index 3dc83fe6eb2..dfc7b8d117f 100644
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2008-04-04 Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
+
+ * INSTALL: Update W32 API requirements.
+
2008-04-03 Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
* gmake.defs, nmake.defs (UNISCRIBE): New variable.
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index d3de652747d..7391e64a39d 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -365,13 +365,11 @@
headers it is using, are not suitable for building Emacs. GCC version
2.95 or later is needed, because that is when the Windows port gained
sufficient support for anonymous structs and unions to cope with some
- definitions from winnt.h that are used by addsection.c. The W32 API
- headers that come with Cygwin b20.1 are incomplete, and do not include
- some definitions required by addsection.c, for instance. Also, older
- releases of the W32 API headers from Anders Norlander contain a typo
- in the definition of IMAGE_FIRST_SECTION in winnt.h, which
- addsection.c relies on. Versions of w32api-xxx.zip from at least
- 1999-11-18 onwards are okay.
+ definitions from winnt.h that are used by addsection.c.
+ Older versions of the W32 API headers that come with Cygwin and MinGW
+ may be missing some definitions required by Emacs, or broken in other
+ ways. In particular, uniscribe APIs were added to mingw cvs on
+ 2006-03-26, so releases from before then cannot be used.
When in doubt about correctness of what configure did, look at the file
config.log, which shows all the failed test programs and compiler