Well that's kind of silly. Unless you're contributing code to the Windows port of Emacs itself then there's no reason I can think of to build from source inste

Well that's kind of silly. Unless you're contributing code to the Windows port of Emacs itself then there's no reason I can think of to build from source instead of downloading the prebuilt Windows binary from the GNU ftp site. They have pre-built 32 and 64 bit versions, each with a variety of options http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ Even if that's not feasible for some reason, setting up the build environment is a one time sunk cost, so who cares? I build from source at work because I'm still using an ancient version of Ubuntu there, and "apt-get install emacs" installs version 24.something. At home on a modern Debian system I use "apt-get install emacs" and it works just fine. I did test that build script on OSX, but the one I actually use is from https://emacsformacosx.com/ https://emacsformacosx.com/