Building and Installing Emacs
- on Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME
+ on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME
- Copyright (c) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for copying permissions.
If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to
like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned
in the previous paragraph.
- If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2000 or
+ If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or
Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash.
Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw binaries.
* Optional image library support
- To build Emacs with support for PNG images, the libpng and zlib
- headers must be in the include path when the configure script is
- run. This can be setup using environment variables, or by
- specifying --cflags -I... options on the command-line to
- configure.bat. Similarly, the jpeg-6b, libXpm, tiff and libungif
- headers need to be in the include path for support for those image
- formats to work. The configure script will report whether it was
+ In addition to its "native" image formats (pbm and xbm), Emacs can
+ handle other image types: xpm, tiff, gif, png and jpeg (postscript is
+ currently unsupported on Windows). To build Emacs with support for
+ them, the corresponding headers must be in the include path when the
+ configure script is run. This can be setup using environment
+ variables, or by specifying --cflags -I... options on the command-line
+ to configure.bat. The configure script will report whether it was
able to detect the headers.
- To use the PNG support, zlib.dll (or zlibd.dll) and libpng.dll (or
- libpng13.dll, or libpng13d.dll) must be on the PATH or in the same
- directory as emacs.exe when Emacs is started. Similar instructions
- apply for other image libraries. Note that tiff support depends on
- the jpeg library. If you did not compile the libraries yourself, you
- must make sure that the jpeg library you install is the same one
- that the tiff library was compiled against.
+ To use the external image support, the DLLs implementing the
+ functionality must be found when Emacs is started, either on the PATH,
+ or in the same directory as emacs.exe. Failure to find a library is
+ not an error; the associated image format will simply be unavailable.
+
+ Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib.
+ For example, tiff support depends on the jpeg library. If you did not
+ compile the libraries yourself, you must make sure that any dependency
+ is in the PATH or otherwise accesible and that the binaries are
+ compatible (for example, that they were built with the same compiler).
+
+ Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at
+ GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net). These are built with
+ MinGW and work better with GCC/MinGW builds of Emacs, like the
+ official binary tarballs for Windows. Compatibility with MSVC is
+ still weak and should not be trusted in production environments; if
+ you really need an MSVC-compiled Emacs with image support, you should
+ try to build the required libraries with the same compiler (though it
+ can be extremely non-trivial, and we'll be interested on hearing of
+ any such effort).
* Building
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