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   2   Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
   4
   5                       Precompiled Distributions of
   6                            Emacs for Windows
   7
   8                             Version 23.1
   9
  10                               July 29, 2009
  11
  12   This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
  13   Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
  14   This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
  15   Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
  16   here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
  17   accustomed to compiling programs themselves.  Corresponding source
  18   can be found in the parent directory in emacs-23.1.tar.gz.
  19
  20   If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
  21   your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
  22   already):
  23
  24         http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
  25
  26 * IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
  27
  28   If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
  29   Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL.  For instance,
  30   if you put the emacs-23.1-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
  31   an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
  32   the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-23.1.tar.gz).
  33
  34   Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
  35   might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
  36   old binaries.
  37
  38
  39 * Files in this directory
  40
  41   + emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip
  42     Windows binaries of Emacs-23.1, with all lisp code and documentation
  43     included.
  44
  45     Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
  46     are not interested in the C source code for Emacs. After
  47     unpacking, you can optionally run the file bin/addpm.exe to have
  48     Emacs add icons to the Start Menu.
  49
  50     If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
  51     unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
  52
  53   + emacs-23.1-barebin-i386.zip
  54     Windows binaries of Emacs-23.1, without lisp code or documentation.
  55
  56     Download this file if you already have the source distribution.
  57
  58     Unpack this over the top of the source distribution. It contains the
  59     bin subdirectory and etc/DOC file.
  60
  61   + libxpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip
  62     Source code required to compile libXpm-3.5.7 on Windows. Contains
  63     a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
  64     generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
  65     source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
  66     libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-23.1-bin-i386.zip
  67     and emacs-23.1-barebin-i386.zip.
  68
  69 * Image support
  70
  71   Emacs 23.1 contains support for images, however for most image formats
  72   supporting libraries are required.  This distribution has been tested
  73   with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for Windows, and the
  74   libraries found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
  75   formats are supported:
  76
  77       PBM/PGM/PPM: Supported natively by Emacs. This format is used for
  78       the black and white versions of the toolbar icons.
  79
  80       XPM: a Windows port of the XPM library corresponding to the x.org
  81       release of X11R7.3 is included with the binary distribution, but
  82       can be replaced by other versions with the name xpm4.dll,
  83       libxpm-nox4.dll or libxpm.dll.
  84
  85       PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.2 or later, which will
  86       be named libpng13d.dll, libpng13.dll, libpng12d.dll, libpng12.dll
  87       or libpng.dll. LibPNG requires zlib, which should come from the same
  88       source as you got libpng.
  89
  90       JPEG: requires the Independant JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
  91       which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
  92
  93       TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
  94       or libtiff.dll.
  95
  96       GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
  97       called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
  98
  99       SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
 100       compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
 101       dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
 102       as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
 103       sample images.
 104
 105 * Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
 106
 107   Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
 108   file (*.tar.gz).  Because Emacs is quite large and therefore
 109   difficult to download over unreliable connections, the Windows
 110   binaries are provided in two combinations. The complete lisp source
 111   plus executables (bin), and executables only (barebin) for unpacking
 112   over the top of the source distribution.  Formerly, we used the same
 113   .tar.gz format but since there are no longer legal problems with
 114   .zip files, and the latest versions of Windows support these
 115   natively, the Windows binaries of Emacs are now distributed as .zip
 116   files.
 117
 118 * Distributions for non-x86 platforms
 119
 120   Distributions for non-x86 platforms are no longer supplied. Older
 121   platforms supported by Windows NT no longer seem to be in demand,
 122   and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64 bit Windows platforms. If you
 123   are willing to help port Emacs 23 to 64 bit versions of Windows,
 124   your contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
 125
 126 * Unpacking distributions
 127
 128   Ports of GNU gzip and GNU tar for handling the source distribution file
 129   format can be found in several places that distribute ports of GNU
 130   programs, for example:
 131
 132     Cygwin:   http://www.cygwin.com/
 133     GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 134
 135   Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
 136   able to handle gzipped tar files. 7zip is one free Windows graphical
 137   program that is able to handle many archive formats.
 138
 139   Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window.  Decide on a directory in which
 140   to place Emacs.  Move the distribution to that directory, and then
 141   unpack it as follows.
 142
 143   If you have the gzipped tar version, use gunzip to uncompress the tar
 144   file on the fly, and pipe the output through tar with the "xvf" flags
 145   to extract the files from the tar file:
 146
 147     % gunzip -c some.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 148
 149   You may see messages from tar about not being able to change the
 150   modification time on directories, and from gunzip complaining about a
 151   broken pipe.  These messages are harmless and you can ignore them.  On
 152   Windows NT, unpacking tarballs this way leaves them in compressed
 153   form, taking up less space on disk.  Unfortunately, on Windows 95 and
 154   98, a large temporary file is created, so it is better to use the
 155   djtarnt.exe program, which performs the equivalent operation in one
 156   step:
 157
 158     % djtarnt -x some.tar.gz
 159
 160   You may be prompted to rename or overwrite directories when using
 161   djtarnt: simply type return to continue (this is harmless).
 162
 163   Zip files can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
 164   if you do not already have other tools to do this.
 165
 166     % unzip some.zip
 167
 168   The precompiled binaries can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
 169   if you do not already have other tools to do this.
 170
 171     % unzip some.zip
 172
 173   Once you have unpacked a precompiled distribution of Emacs, it should
 174   have the following subdirectories:
 175
 176         bin     etc     info    lisp    site-lisp
 177
 178
 179 * Unpacking with other tools
 180
 181   If you do use other utility programs to unpack the distribution, check
 182   the following to be sure the distribution was not corrupted:
 183
 184   + Be sure to disable the CR/LF translation or the executables will
 185     be unusable.  Older versions of WinZip would enable this
 186     translation by default when unpacking .tar files.  If you are
 187     using WinZip, disable it.  (I don't have WinZip myself, and I do
 188     not know the specific commands necessary to disable it.)
 189
 190   + Check that filenames were not truncated to 8.3.  For example, there
 191     should be a file lisp/abbrevlist.el; if this has been truncated to
 192     abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
 193     and Emacs will not start.
 194
 195   + Check that filenames were not changed by your web-browser.  Some
 196     proprietary web-browsers save .tar.gz files as .tar.tar. You might
 197     like to consider switching to a Free modern browser if your browser
 198     has this bug.
 199
 200   + I've also had reports that some older "gnuwin32" port of tar
 201     corrupts the executables.  Use the latest version from the gnuwin32
 202     site or another port of tar instead.
 203
 204   If you believe you have unpacked the distributions correctly and are
 205   still encountering problems, see the section on Further Information
 206   below.
 207
 208
 209 * Compiling from source
 210
 211   If you would like to compile Emacs from source, download the source
 212   distribution, unpack it in the same manner as a precompiled
 213   distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
 214   directions.  It is recommended to use GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
 215   support to compile the source.  The port of GCC included in Cygwin
 216   is supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble
 217   since some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
 218
 219
 220 * Further information
 221
 222   If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
 223   your favorite web browser to following the document (if you haven't
 224   already):
 225
 226         http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
 227
 228   This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
 229   about the Windows port and related software packages. Note that as
 230   most of the information in that FAQ is for earlier versions, so some
 231   information may not be relevant to Emacs-23.1.
 232
 233   In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
 234   related to the Windows port of Emacs.  For information about the
 235   list, see this Web page:
 236
 237         http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
 238
 239   To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
 240   help-emacs-windows@gnu.org.  (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
 241   To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you
 242   find at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
 243   explained there.
 244
 245   Another valuable source of information and help which should not be
 246   overlooked is the various Usenet news groups dedicated to Emacs.
 247   These are particuarly good for help with general issues which aren't
 248   specific to the Windows port of Emacs.  The main news groups to use
 249   for seeking help are:
 250
 251         gnu.emacs.help
 252         comp.emacs
 253
 254   There are also fairly regular postings and announcements of new or
 255   updated Emacs packages on this group:
 256
 257         gnu.emacs.sources
 258
 259   Enjoy!
 260
 261   Jason Rumney
 262   (jasonr@gnu.org)
 263
 264   Most of this README was contributed by former maintainer Andrew Innes
 265   (andrewi@gnu.org)
 266
 267 \f
 268 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 269
 270 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 271 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 272 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 273 (at your option) any later version.
 274
 275 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 276 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 277 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 278 GNU General Public License for more details.
 279
 280 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 281 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.