Re: [PATCH] Use UTF-8 active code page for Windows host.

2023-03-28 Thread Costas Argyris
Being able to know whether UTF-8 is supported or not is a valid concern. How about adding this information to what "make --version" shows? I think this is a great idea, despite the fact that I expect most build environments to actually have a resource compiler (either windres or the msvc one) and

Re: [PATCH] Use UTF-8 active code page for Windows host.

2023-03-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Costas Argyris > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:04:52 +0100 > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > > > Should we fail here? Or should we build without UTF-8 support since we > > don't have a resource compiler? I think that's what the configure > > version does, right? > > You are right, that was an incon

Re: [PATCH] Use UTF-8 active code page for Windows host.

2023-03-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Paul Smith > Cc: bug-make@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 16:35:42 -0400 > > +:FindWindres > +:: Show the resource compiler version that we found > +echo. > +call %RC% --version > +if not ERRORLEVEL 1 goto Build > +echo No %RC% found. > +exit 1 > > Should we fail here? Or should we bui