Emacspeak discussion list

[Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com>]

Of course, write a long winded post, think of the answer a few minutes 
later when making meatballs. 

Git with Bash appears to do the trick, making the fully needed stack only

- dotnet SDK 8.0+
- git (comes with Bash for windows) 
- emacs
- emacspeak

Anyway, thanks for letting me yell into the void. 

> On Apr 13, 2024, at 18:17, Robert Melton <lists AT robertmelton.com> wrote:
> 
> Looking for ideas for how to build emacspeak on Windows.
> 
> The core problem is there are small bits of the Makefile, but honestly 
> not too much that is incompatible with running it using make on 
> Windows. Things like chmod statements, expecting tar to be on the 
> machine, etc.
> 
> The entire point of SharpWin is you do not need an entire Linux-alike 
> system, you could already run a VM or WSL and find ways to build 
> emacspeak, but IMHO, the end result is fairly poor. Anyway, not to 
> tangent to deep on this, but installing a massive system like 
> cygwin or WSL for my purposes does not solve the problem. It just 
> creates another one. 
> 
> My first attempt was to add various checks for Windows arounds 
> incompatible stuff: https://github.com/tvraman/emacspeak/pull/119
> 
> Raman rejected it and I don't disagree, it got a little gross.  
> 
> So, next I built a little make.ps1 -- which will get less ugly 
> if merged into emacspeak, but not zero ugly. Additionally, I 
> think C# skills are more likely found in our community than 
> Powershell (but correct me if I'm am wrong). In theory this 
> could be the build system, it works, but for valid reasons is 
> unlikely to be accepted into Emacspeak.
> 
> Raman recommended I keep it in one file, I could do basically what I do 
> in make.ps1 in like Makefile.windows in the root, and then put a single 
> branching statement in to route to Makefile.windows when detected to be
> running on Windows.
> 
> I really don't like any of the approaches very much, but trying to find 
> the most maintainable balance for everyone. 
> 
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> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
> lists AT robertmelton.com <mailto:lists AT robertmelton.com>

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