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a4a9692d | 1 | Building and Installing Emacs |
3dfbc6d8 | 2 | on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME |
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3dfbc6d8 | 4 | Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 | See the end of the file for copying permissions. |
6 | ||
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7 | If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to |
8 | remove the files and unpack again with a different program! | |
9 | WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems, | |
177c0ea7 | 10 | such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty |
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11 | directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP |
12 | site. | |
13 | ||
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14 | If you are building out of CVS, then some files in this directory |
15 | (.bat files, nmake.defs and makefile.w32-in) may need the line-ends | |
16 | fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts | |
17 | is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory: | |
18 | cvs update -kb | |
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19 | In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the |
20 | parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of "touch.exe" | |
21 | in your path, and that it will create files that do not yet exist. | |
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da179dd0 | 23 | To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or |
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24 | later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw |
25 | and W32 API support and a port of GNU make. You can use the Cygwin | |
26 | ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the Mingw headers and libraries to | |
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27 | build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3, |
28 | include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part). | |
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30 | Other compilers may work, but specific reports from people that have |
31 | tried suggest that the Intel C compiler (for example) may produce an | |
32 | Emacs executable with strange filename completion behaviour. Unless | |
33 | you would like to assist by finding and fixing the cause of any bugs | |
34 | like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned | |
35 | in the previous paragraph. | |
36 | ||
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37 | You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These |
38 | and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from the Mingw or | |
39 | Cygwin projects. | |
40 | ||
3dfbc6d8 | 41 | If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or |
6d76a603 | 42 | Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash. |
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1040d041 | 44 | Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw and binaries. |
a4a9692d | 45 | |
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46 | For reference, here is a list of which builds of GNU make are known |
47 | to work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence | |
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48 | of sh.exe, the Cygwin port of Bash. Note that any version of make |
49 | that is compiled with Cygwin will only work with Cygwin tools, due to | |
50 | the use of cygwin style paths. This means Cygwin make is unsuitable | |
51 | for building parts of Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and | |
52 | "make bootstrap", for example). Also see the Trouble-shooting section | |
53 | below if you decide to go ahead and use Cygwin make. | |
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54 | |
55 | In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process, | |
56 | at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use cmd.exe, the default NT shell, | |
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57 | instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have |
58 | MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe | |
59 | instead of sh.exe. | |
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61 | sh exists no sh |
62 | ||
fc813ef6 | 63 | cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5] |
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64 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay |
65 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay | |
66 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1: okay okay | |
bf95665f | 67 | mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay[4] |
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68 | cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5] |
69 | cygwin compiled make 3.78.1: fails[5] fails[2, 5] | |
70 | cygwin compiled make 3.79.1: fails[3, 5] fails[2?, 5] | |
177c0ea7 | 71 | mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1: okay okay |
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72 | |
73 | Notes: | |
74 | ||
75 | [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must mount | |
76 | emacs source with text!=binary. | |
77 | [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc. | |
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78 | [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; cannot build with early |
79 | versions of cygwin. | |
4bcec9a2 | 80 | [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash. |
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81 | [5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths. |
82 | May work if building emacs without leim. | |
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6d76a603 | 84 | * Configuring |
a4a9692d | 85 | |
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86 | Configuration of Emacs is now handled by running configure.bat in the |
87 | nt subdirectory. It will detect which compiler you have available, | |
88 | and generate makefiles accordingly. You can override the compiler | |
89 | detection, and control optimization and debug settings, by specifying | |
90 | options on the command line when invoking configure. | |
a4a9692d | 91 | |
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92 | To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available, |
93 | simply change to the nt subdirectory and run `configure' with no | |
94 | options. To see what options are available, run `configure --help'. | |
a4a9692d | 95 | |
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96 | N.B. It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure |
97 | is running, when gcc support is being tested. These cannot be | |
98 | surpressed because of limitations in the Windows 9x command.com shell. | |
99 | ||
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100 | * Optional image library support |
101 | ||
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102 | In addition to its "native" image formats (pbm and xbm), Emacs can |
103 | handle other image types: xpm, tiff, gif, png and jpeg (postscript is | |
104 | currently unsupported on Windows). To build Emacs with support for | |
105 | them, the corresponding headers must be in the include path when the | |
106 | configure script is run. This can be setup using environment | |
107 | variables, or by specifying --cflags -I... options on the command-line | |
108 | to configure.bat. The configure script will report whether it was | |
752ead61 | 109 | able to detect the headers. |
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111 | To use the external image support, the DLLs implementing the |
112 | functionality must be found when Emacs is started, either on the PATH, | |
113 | or in the same directory as emacs.exe. Failure to find a library is | |
114 | not an error; the associated image format will simply be unavailable. | |
115 | ||
116 | Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib. | |
117 | For example, tiff support depends on the jpeg library. If you did not | |
118 | compile the libraries yourself, you must make sure that any dependency | |
119 | is in the PATH or otherwise accesible and that the binaries are | |
120 | compatible (for example, that they were built with the same compiler). | |
121 | ||
122 | Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at | |
123 | GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net). These are built with | |
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124 | MinGW, and so are very compatible with GCC/MinGW builds of Emacs (like |
125 | the official binary tarballs for Windows). Compatibility with MSVC, | |
126 | on the other hand, is still weak and should not be trusted in | |
127 | production environments; if you really need an MSVC-compiled Emacs | |
128 | with image support, you should try to build the required libraries | |
129 | with the same compiler (though it can be extremely non-trivial, and | |
130 | we'll be interested on hearing of any such effort). | |
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6d76a603 | 132 | * Building |
a4a9692d | 133 | |
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134 | After running configure, simply run the appropriate `make' program for |
135 | your compiler to build Emacs. For MSVC, this is nmake; for GCC, it is | |
136 | GNU make. | |
a4a9692d | 137 | |
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138 | As the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages |
139 | declaring that some functions don't return a value, or that some data | |
140 | conversions will be lossy, etc. You can safely ignore these messages. | |
141 | The warnings may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but | |
142 | until then we will just live with them. | |
a4a9692d | 143 | |
6d76a603 | 144 | * Installing |
a4a9692d | 145 | |
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146 | To install Emacs after it has compiled, simply run `nmake install' |
147 | or `make install', depending on which version of the Make utility | |
148 | do you have. | |
a4a9692d | 149 | |
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150 | By default, Emacs will be installed in the location where it was |
151 | built, but a different location can be specified either using the | |
152 | --prefix option to configure, or by setting INSTALL_DIR when running | |
153 | make, like so: | |
a4a9692d | 154 | |
da179dd0 | 155 | make install INSTALL_DIR=D:/emacs |
a4a9692d | 156 | |
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157 | (for `nmake', type "nmake install INSTALL_DIR=D:/emacs" instead). |
158 | ||
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159 | The install process will run addpm to setup the registry entries, and |
160 | to create a Start menu icon for Emacs. | |
a4a9692d | 161 | |
6d76a603 | 162 | * Trouble-shooting |
a4a9692d | 163 | |
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164 | The main problems that are likely to be encountered when building |
165 | Emacs stem from using an old version of GCC, or old Mingw or W32 API | |
166 | headers. Additionally, cygwin ports of GNU make may require the Emacs | |
167 | source tree to be mounted with text!=binary, because the makefiles | |
168 | generated by configure.bat necessarily use DOS line endings. Also, | |
169 | cygwin ports of make must run in UNIX mode, either by specifying | |
170 | --unix on the command line, or MAKE_MODE=UNIX in the environment. | |
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172 | When configure runs, it attempts to detect when GCC itself, or the |
173 | headers it is using, are not suitable for building Emacs. GCC version | |
174 | 2.95 or later is needed, because that is when the Windows port gained | |
175 | sufficient support for anonymous structs and unions to cope with some | |
176 | definitions from winnt.h that are used by addsection.c. The W32 API | |
177 | headers that come with Cygwin b20.1 are incomplete, and do not include | |
178 | some definitions required by addsection.c, for instance. Also, older | |
179 | releases of the W32 API headers from Anders Norlander contain a typo | |
180 | in the definition of IMAGE_FIRST_SECTION in winnt.h, which | |
181 | addsection.c relies on. Versions of w32api-xxx.zip from at least | |
182 | 1999-11-18 onwards are okay. | |
a4a9692d | 183 | |
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184 | If configure succeeds, but make fails, install the Cygwin port of |
185 | Bash, even if the table above indicates that Emacs should be able to | |
186 | build without sh.exe. (Some versions of Windows shells are too dumb | |
187 | for Makefile's used by Emacs.) | |
188 | ||
8481e41e | 189 | If you are using certain Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin version |
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190 | 1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so: |
191 | ||
192 | configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ | |
315746cc | 193 | --ldflags -mwin32 |
6d76a603 | 194 | |
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195 | However, the latest Cygwin versions, such as 1.3.3, don't need those |
196 | switches; you can simply use "configure --with-gcc". | |
197 | ||
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198 | We will attempt to auto-detect the need for these flags in a future |
199 | release. | |
200 | ||
201 | * Debugging | |
a4a9692d | 202 | |
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203 | You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is |
204 | appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if | |
205 | compiled with MSVC, or gdb if compiled with gcc. | |
206 | ||
207 | Emacs functions implemented in C use a naming convention that reflects | |
208 | their names in lisp. The names of the C routines are the lisp names | |
209 | prefixed with 'F', and with dashes converted to underscores. For | |
210 | example, the function call-process is implemented in C by | |
211 | Fcall_process. Similarly, lisp variables are prefixed with 'V', again | |
212 | with dashes converted to underscores. These conventions enable you to | |
213 | easily set breakpoints or examine familiar lisp variables by name. | |
214 | ||
215 | Since Emacs data is often in the form of a lisp object, and the | |
216 | Lisp_Object type is difficult to examine manually in the MSVC | |
217 | debugger, Emacs provides a helper routine called debug_print that | |
218 | prints out a readable representation of a Lisp_Object. (If you are | |
219 | using gdb, there is a .gdbinit file in the src directory which | |
220 | provides definitions that are useful for examining lisp objects. The | |
221 | following tips are mainly of interest when using MSVC.) The output | |
222 | from debug_print is sent to stderr, and to the debugger via the | |
223 | OutputDebugString routine. The output sent to stderr should be | |
224 | displayed in the console window that was opened when the emacs.exe | |
225 | executable was started. The output sent to the debugger should be | |
226 | displayed in its "Debug" output window. | |
227 | ||
228 | When you are in the process of debugging Emacs and you would like to | |
229 | examine the contents of a Lisp_Object variable, popup the QuickWatch | |
230 | window (QuickWatch has an eyeglass symbol on its button in the | |
231 | toolbar). In the text field at the top of the window, enter | |
232 | debug_print(<variable>) and hit return. For example, start and run | |
233 | Emacs in the debugger until it is waiting for user input. Then click | |
234 | on the Break button in the debugger to halt execution. Emacs should | |
235 | halt in ZwUserGetMessage waiting for an input event. Use the Call | |
236 | Stack window to select the procedure w32_msp_pump up the call stack | |
237 | (see below for why you have to do this). Open the QuickWatch window | |
238 | and enter debug_print(Vexec_path). Evaluating this expression will | |
239 | then print out the contents of the lisp variable exec-path. | |
240 | ||
241 | If QuickWatch reports that the symbol is unknown, then check the call | |
242 | stack in the Call Stack window. If the selected frame in the call | |
243 | stack is not an Emacs procedure, then the debugger won't recognize | |
244 | Emacs symbols. Instead, select a frame that is inside an Emacs | |
245 | procedure and try using debug_print again. | |
246 | ||
247 | If QuickWatch invokes debug_print but nothing happens, then check the | |
248 | thread that is selected in the debugger. If the selected thread is | |
249 | not the last thread to run (the "current" thread), then it cannot be | |
250 | used to execute debug_print. Use the Debug menu to select the current | |
251 | thread and try using debug_print again. Note that the debugger halts | |
252 | execution (e.g., due to a breakpoint) in the context of the current | |
253 | thread, so this should only be a problem if you've explicitly switched | |
254 | threads. | |
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