-Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Precompiled Distributions of
Emacs for Windows
- Version 22.2
+ Version 24.1
- March 26, 2008
-
- This directory contains source and precompiled distributions for GNU
- Emacs on Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This port is a
- part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the Free Software
- Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided here for
- convenience since the majority of Windows users are not accustomed
- to compiling programs themselves.
+ January 1, 2011
+
+ This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
+ Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
+ This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
+ Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
+ here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
+ accustomed to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source
+ can be found in the parent directory in emacs-24.1.tar.gz.
If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
- The above web document is a far more complete version of this README
- file. If you don't have access to the Web, however, then read on.
-
-
* IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance,
- if you put the emacs-22.2-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
+ if you put the emacs-24.1-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
- the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-22.2.tar.gz).
+ the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-24.1.tar.gz).
Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
* Files in this directory
- + emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs-22.2, with all lisp code and documentation
+ + emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip
+ Windows binaries of Emacs-24.1, with all lisp code and documentation
included.
Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
- + emacs-22.2-barebin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs-22.2, without lisp code or documentation.
+ + emacs-24.1-barebin-i386.zip
+ Windows binaries of Emacs-24.1, without lisp code or documentation.
- Download this file if you already have the source distribution, or
- if you need to redump the emacs.exe executable.
+ Download this file if you already have the source distribution.
- Unpack this over the top of either the source distribution or the
- bin distribution above. It contains the bin subdirectory and etc/DOC
- file, plus temacs.exe and dump.bat, which are required if you want to
- redump emacs without recompiling it.
+ Unpack this over the top of the source distribution. It contains the
+ bin subdirectory and etc/DOC file.
+ libxpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip
Source code required to compile libXpm-3.5.7 on Windows. Contains
a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
- libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-22.2-bin-i386.zip
- and emacs-22.2-barebin-i386.zip.
-
+ libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip
+ and emacs-24.1-barebin-i386.zip.
- The following are provided for users who require older versions.
+* Prerequisites for running Emacs on Windows 9X
- + emacs-22.1-bin-i386.zip
- + emacs-22-1-barebin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs 22.1, contents as above.
-
- + emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar.gz
- Windows binaries of Emacs 21.3, with compiled lisp code and some
- documentation included.
-
- + emacs-21.3-leim.tar.gz
- Compiled lisp input methods. This optional addition to Emacs-21.3
- is required if you want to enter languages that are not directly
- supported by your keyboard.
+ Using Emacs in GUI mode on Windows 95/98/Me requires the UNICOWS.DLL
+ dynamic library, which provides MSLU, the Microsoft Unicode Layer
+ for Windows 9X. You can freely download it from the Microsoft site.
* Image support
- Emacs 22.2 contains support for images, however for most image formats
+ Emacs 24.1 contains support for images, however for most image formats
supporting libraries are required. This distribution has been tested
with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for Windows, and the
libraries found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
or libpng.dll. LibPNG requires zlib, which should come from the same
source as you got libpng.
- JPEG: requires the Independant JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
+ JPEG: requires the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
+ SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
+ compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
+ dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
+ as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
+ sample images.
+
* Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
- Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar file
- (*.tar.gz). Because Emacs is quite large and therefore difficult to
- download over unreliable connections, the Windows binaries are provided
- in several combinations, ranging from the complete source plus executables,
- to just the minimal amount needed to run without any source, plus a
- couple of optional packages. Formerly, we used the same .tar.gz format
- but since there are no longer legal problems with .zip files, and the
- latest versions of Windows support these natively, the Windows binaries
- of Emacs are now distributed as .zip files.
+ Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
+ file (*.tar.gz). Because Emacs is quite large and therefore
+ difficult to download over unreliable connections, the Windows
+ binaries are provided in two combinations. The complete lisp source
+ plus executables (bin), and executables only (barebin) for unpacking
+ over the top of the source distribution. Formerly, we used the same
+ .tar.gz format but since there are no longer legal problems with
+ .zip files, and the latest versions of Windows support these
+ natively, the Windows binaries of Emacs are now distributed as .zip
+ files.
* Distributions for non-x86 platforms
Distributions for non-x86 platforms are no longer supplied. Older
platforms supported by Windows NT no longer seem to be in demand,
- and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64bit Windows platforms. If you are
- willing to help port Emacs 23 to 64bit versions of Windows, your
- contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
+ and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64 bit Windows platforms. If you
+ are willing to help port Emacs 24 to 64 bit versions of Windows,
+ your contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
* Unpacking distributions
GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
- able to handle gzipped tar files.
+ able to handle gzipped tar files. 7zip is one free Windows graphical
+ program that is able to handle many archive formats.
Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window. Decide on a directory in which
to place Emacs. Move the distribution to that directory, and then
abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
and Emacs will not start.
+ + Check that filenames were not changed by your web-browser. Some
+ proprietary web-browsers save .tar.gz files as .tar.tar. You might
+ like to consider switching to a Free modern browser if your browser
+ has this bug.
+
+ I've also had reports that some older "gnuwin32" port of tar
corrupts the executables. Use the latest version from the gnuwin32
site or another port of tar instead.
If you would like to compile Emacs from source, download the source
distribution, unpack it in the same manner as a precompiled
distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
- directions. You can either use the Microsoft compiler included with
- Visual C++ 2003 or earlier, or GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW support,
- to compile the source. The port of GCC included in Cygwin is
- supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble since
- some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
+ directions. It is recommended to use GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
+ support to compile the source. The port of GCC included in Cygwin
+ is supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble
+ since some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
* Further information
This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
about the Windows port and related software packages. Note that as
- of writing, most of the information in that FAQ was for Emacs-21.3
- and earlier versions, so some information may not be relevant to
- Emacs-22.2.
+ most of the information in that FAQ is for earlier versions, so some
+ information may not be relevant to Emacs-24.1.
In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
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