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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-12-24 18:46:58 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-12-24 18:46:58 +0200 |
| commit | 677f6c79eb96e128399e8a0480769ec1fe8240ff (patch) | |
| tree | a20e7917bd0f5d2b4460238c3c87f3b92f1050b1 /nt | |
| parent | 7723af5e4aa8304e244c285d489ca733b8a6cac3 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-677f6c79eb96e128399e8a0480769ec1fe8240ff.tar.gz | |
; Update minimum requirements of MinGW-w64
* etc/PROBLEMS (Dumping):
* nt/INSTALL.W64: Update the minimum OS version supported by
MinGW-w64.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt')
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL.W64 | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |