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a4a9692d | 1 | Building and Installing Emacs |
3dfbc6d8 | 2 | on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME |
a4a9692d | 3 | |
6d344054 | 4 | Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
0939da72 | 5 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
7f6d64f8 | 6 | See the end of the file for license conditions. |
4b994b84 | 7 | |
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8 | * For the impatient |
9 | ||
10 | Here are the concise instructions for configuring and building the | |
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11 | native Windows binary of Emacs, for those who want to skip the |
12 | complex explanations and ``just do it'': | |
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14 | Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin, |
15 | use the normal installation instructions, ../INSTALL. | |
16 | ||
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17 | 1. Change to the `nt' directory (the directory of this file): |
18 | ||
19 | cd nt | |
20 | ||
21 | 2. Run configure.bat. From the COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE command prompt: | |
22 | ||
23 | configure | |
24 | ||
25 | from a Unixy shell prompt: | |
26 | ||
27 | cmd /c configure.bat | |
28 | or | |
29 | command.com /c configure.bat | |
30 | ||
31 | 3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment. If you build | |
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32 | with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using |
33 | VC++ 8.0 and later below): | |
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34 | |
35 | nmake | |
36 | ||
37 | For the development environments based on GNU GCC (MinGW, MSYS, | |
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38 | Cygwin - but see notes about Cygwin make below), depending on how |
39 | Make is called, it could be: | |
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40 | |
41 | make | |
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42 | or |
43 | mingw32-make | |
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44 | or |
45 | gnumake | |
46 | or | |
47 | gmake | |
48 | ||
49 | (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake | |
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50 | bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.) |
51 | ||
52 | With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have | |
53 | Make execute several commands at once, like this: | |
54 | ||
ecfd8ceb | 55 | gmake -j 2 XMFLAGS="-j 2" |
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56 | |
57 | The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make | |
58 | on Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum | |
59 | number of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows | |
60 | up to 4 simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and | |
61 | up to 3 in each one of the recursive Make's. | |
0939da72 | 62 | |
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63 | 4. Generate the Info manuals (only if you are building out of CVS, and |
64 | if you have makeinfo.exe installed): | |
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65 | |
66 | make info | |
67 | ||
68 | (change "make" to "nmake" if you use MSVC). | |
69 | ||
70 | 5. Install the produced binaries: | |
71 | ||
72 | make install | |
73 | ||
74 | That's it! | |
75 | ||
76 | If these short instructions somehow fail, read the rest of this | |
77 | file. | |
78 | ||
79 | * Preliminaries | |
80 | ||
195e32b7 | 81 | If you want to build a Cygwin port of Emacs, use the instructions in |
0d801288 | 82 | the INSTALL file in the main Emacs directory (the parent of this |
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83 | directory). These instructions are for building a native Windows |
84 | binary of Emacs. | |
85 | ||
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86 | If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to |
87 | remove the files and unpack again with a different program! | |
88 | WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems, | |
177c0ea7 | 89 | such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty |
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90 | directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP |
91 | site. | |
92 | ||
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93 | If you are building out of CVS, then some files in this directory |
94 | (.bat files, nmake.defs and makefile.w32-in) may need the line-ends | |
95 | fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts | |
96 | is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory: | |
591cbed1 | 97 | |
589a591b | 98 | cvs update -kb |
591cbed1 | 99 | |
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100 | Alternatively, use programs that convert end-of-line format, such as |
101 | dos2unix and unix2dos available from GnuWin32 or dtou and utod from | |
102 | the DJGPP project. | |
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1040d041 | 104 | In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the |
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105 | parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of |
106 | "touch.exe" in your path, and that it will create files that do not | |
107 | yet exist. | |
589a591b | 108 | |
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109 | * Supported development environments |
110 | ||
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111 | To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0, or |
112 | later up to 7.0, and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later | |
113 | with MinGW and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make. You can use | |
114 | the Cygwin ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and | |
115 | libraries to build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least | |
116 | since v1.3.3, include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral | |
117 | part). | |
118 | ||
119 | Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not | |
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120 | supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into |
121 | the libraries shipped with the compiler. | |
ecfd8ceb | 122 | |
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123 | The rest of this file assumes you have a working development |
124 | environment. If you just installed such an environment, try | |
125 | building a trivial C "Hello world" program, and see if it works. If | |
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126 | it doesn't work, resolve that problem first! If you use Microsoft |
127 | Visual Studio .NET 2003, don't forget to run the VCVARS32.BAT batch | |
128 | file from the `Bin' subdirectory of the directory where you have | |
129 | installed VS.NET. | |
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131 | If you use the MinGW port of GCC and GNU Make to build Emacs, there |
132 | are some compatibility issues wrt Make and the shell that is run by | |
133 | Make, either the standard COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE supplied with Windows | |
117dde84 | 134 | or sh.exe., a port of a Unixy shell. For reference, below is a list |
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135 | of which builds of GNU Make are known to work or not, and whether |
136 | they work in the presence and/or absence of sh.exe, the Cygwin port | |
137 | of Bash. Note that any version of Make that is compiled with Cygwin | |
138 | will only work with Cygwin tools, due to the use of cygwin style | |
139 | paths. This means Cygwin Make is unsuitable for building parts of | |
140 | Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and "make bootstrap", | |
141 | for example). Also see the Trouble-shooting section below if you | |
142 | decide to go ahead and use Cygwin make. | |
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143 | |
144 | In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process, | |
6c72c0c7 | 145 | at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use CMD.EXE, the default Windows shell, |
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146 | instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have |
147 | MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe | |
148 | instead of sh.exe. | |
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150 | sh exists no sh |
151 | ||
fc813ef6 | 152 | cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5] |
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153 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay |
154 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay | |
155 | MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1: okay okay | |
bf95665f | 156 | mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay[4] |
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157 | cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5] |
158 | cygwin compiled make 3.78.1: fails[5] fails[2, 5] | |
159 | cygwin compiled make 3.79.1: fails[3, 5] fails[2?, 5] | |
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160 | cygwin compiled make 3.80: okay[6] fails?[7] |
161 | cygwin compiled make 3.81: fails fails?[7] | |
177c0ea7 | 162 | mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1: okay okay |
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163 | mingw32 compiled make 3.80: okay okay[7] |
164 | mingw32 compiled make 3.81: okay okay[8] | |
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165 | |
166 | Notes: | |
167 | ||
168 | [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must mount | |
169 | emacs source with text!=binary. | |
170 | [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc. | |
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171 | [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; cannot build with early |
172 | versions of cygwin. | |
4bcec9a2 | 173 | [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash. |
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174 | [5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths. |
175 | May work if building emacs without leim. | |
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176 | [6] need to uncomment 3 lines in nt/gmake.defs that invoke `cygpath' |
177 | (look for "cygpath" near line 85 of gmake.defs). | |
178 | [7] not recommended; please report if you try this combination. | |
179 | [8] tested only on Windows XP. | |
4bcec9a2 | 180 | |
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181 | Other compilers may work, but specific reports from people that have |
182 | tried suggest that the Intel C compiler (for example) may produce an | |
183 | Emacs executable with strange filename completion behaviour. Unless | |
184 | you would like to assist by finding and fixing the cause of any bugs | |
185 | like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned | |
186 | in the previous paragraph. | |
187 | ||
188 | You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These | |
189 | and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from one of several | |
190 | projects: | |
191 | ||
0939da72 | 192 | * http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ( GnuWin32 ) |
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193 | * http://www.mingw.org/ ( MinGW ) |
194 | * http://www.cygwin.com/ ( Cygwin ) | |
195 | * http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ( UnxUtils ) | |
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196 | |
197 | If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or | |
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198 | Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash. That is |
199 | because the native Windows shell COMMAND.COM is too limited; the | |
200 | Emacs build procedure tries very hard to support even such limited | |
201 | shells, but as none of the Windows developers of Emacs work on | |
202 | Windows 9x, we cannot guarantee that it works without a more | |
203 | powerful shell. | |
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204 | |
205 | Additional instructions and help for building Emacs on Windows can be | |
206 | found at the Emacs Wiki: | |
207 | ||
0939da72 | 208 | http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit |
6c72c0c7 | 209 | |
309c91ff | 210 | and on these URLs: |
6c72c0c7 | 211 | |
0939da72 | 212 | http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html |
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213 | http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx |
214 | ||
215 | The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC, | |
216 | as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but | |
217 | has more details about it. | |
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6d76a603 | 219 | * Configuring |
a4a9692d | 220 | |
da179dd0 | 221 | Configuration of Emacs is now handled by running configure.bat in the |
0939da72 | 222 | `nt' subdirectory. It will detect which compiler you have available, |
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223 | and generate makefiles accordingly. You can override the compiler |
224 | detection, and control optimization and debug settings, by specifying | |
225 | options on the command line when invoking configure. | |
a4a9692d | 226 | |
da179dd0 | 227 | To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available, |
0939da72 | 228 | simply change to the `nt' subdirectory and run `configure.bat' with no |
da179dd0 | 229 | options. To see what options are available, run `configure --help'. |
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230 | Do NOT use the --no-debug option to configure.bat unless you are |
231 | absolutely sure the produced binaries will never need to be run under | |
232 | a debugger. | |
a4a9692d | 233 | |
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234 | N.B. It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure |
235 | is running, when gcc support is being tested. These cannot be | |
236 | surpressed because of limitations in the Windows 9x command.com shell. | |
237 | ||
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238 | You are encouraged to look at the file config.log which shows details |
239 | for failed tests, after configure.bat finishes. Any unexplained failure | |
240 | should be investigated and perhaps reported as a bug (see the section | |
241 | about reporting bugs in the file README in this directory and in the | |
242 | Emacs manual). | |
243 | ||
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244 | * Optional image library support |
245 | ||
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246 | In addition to its "native" image formats (pbm and xbm), Emacs can |
247 | handle other image types: xpm, tiff, gif, png and jpeg (postscript is | |
248 | currently unsupported on Windows). To build Emacs with support for | |
249 | them, the corresponding headers must be in the include path when the | |
250 | configure script is run. This can be setup using environment | |
251 | variables, or by specifying --cflags -I... options on the command-line | |
252 | to configure.bat. The configure script will report whether it was | |
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253 | able to detect the headers. If the results of this testing appear to be |
254 | incorrect, please look for details in the file config.log: it will show | |
255 | the failed test programs and compiler error messages that should explain | |
256 | what is wrong. (Usually, any such failures happen because some headers | |
257 | are missing due to bad packaging of the image support libraries.) | |
bfd889ed | 258 | |
3dfbc6d8 | 259 | To use the external image support, the DLLs implementing the |
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260 | functionality must be found when Emacs first needs them, either on the |
261 | PATH, or in the same directory as emacs.exe. Failure to find a | |
262 | library is not an error; the associated image format will simply be | |
263 | unavailable. Note that once Emacs has determined that a library can | |
264 | not be found, there's no way to force it to try again, other than | |
265 | restarting. See the variable `image-library-alist' to configure the | |
266 | expected names of the libraries. | |
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267 | |
268 | Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib. | |
269 | For example, tiff support depends on the jpeg library. If you did not | |
270 | compile the libraries yourself, you must make sure that any dependency | |
271 | is in the PATH or otherwise accesible and that the binaries are | |
272 | compatible (for example, that they were built with the same compiler). | |
273 | ||
274 | Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at | |
bd7bdff8 | 275 | the GnuWin32 project. These are built with MinGW, but they can be |
591cbed1 | 276 | used with both GCC/MinGW and MSVC builds of Emacs. See the info on |
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277 | http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html, under "How to Get |
278 | Images Support", for more details about installing image support | |
279 | libraries. Note specifically that, due to some packaging snafus in | |
280 | the GnuWin32-supplied image libraries, you will need to download | |
281 | _source_ packages for some of the libraries in order to get the | |
282 | header files necessary for building Emacs with image support. | |
bfd889ed | 283 | |
6d76a603 | 284 | * Building |
a4a9692d | 285 | |
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286 | After running configure, simply run the appropriate `make' program for |
287 | your compiler to build Emacs. For MSVC, this is nmake; for GCC, it is | |
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288 | GNU make. (If you are building out of CVS, say "make bootstrap" or |
289 | "nmake bootstrap" instead.) | |
a4a9692d | 290 | |
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291 | As the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages |
292 | declaring that some functions don't return a value, or that some data | |
293 | conversions will be lossy, etc. You can safely ignore these messages. | |
294 | The warnings may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but | |
295 | until then we will just live with them. | |
a4a9692d | 296 | |
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297 | With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have Make |
298 | execute several commands at once, like this: | |
299 | ||
300 | gmake -j 4 XMFLAGS="-j 3" | |
301 | ||
302 | The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make on | |
303 | Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum number | |
304 | of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows up to 4 | |
305 | simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and up to 3 in | |
306 | each one of the recursive Make's; you can use other numbers of jobs, | |
307 | if you wish. | |
308 | ||
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309 | If you are building from CVS, the following commands will produce |
310 | the Info manuals (which are not part of the CVS repository): | |
311 | ||
312 | make info | |
313 | or | |
314 | nmake info | |
315 | ||
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316 | Note that you will need makeinfo.exe (from the GNU Texinfo package) |
317 | in order for this command to succeed. | |
318 | ||
6d76a603 | 319 | * Installing |
a4a9692d | 320 | |
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321 | To install Emacs after it has compiled, simply run `nmake install' |
322 | or `make install', depending on which version of the Make utility | |
323 | do you have. | |
a4a9692d | 324 | |
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325 | By default, Emacs will be installed in the location where it was |
326 | built, but a different location can be specified either using the | |
327 | --prefix option to configure, or by setting INSTALL_DIR when running | |
328 | make, like so: | |
a4a9692d | 329 | |
da179dd0 | 330 | make install INSTALL_DIR=D:/emacs |
a4a9692d | 331 | |
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332 | (for `nmake', type "nmake install INSTALL_DIR=D:/emacs" instead). |
333 | ||
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334 | The install process will run addpm to setup the registry entries, and |
335 | to create a Start menu icon for Emacs. | |
a4a9692d | 336 | |
6d76a603 | 337 | * Trouble-shooting |
a4a9692d | 338 | |
da179dd0 | 339 | The main problems that are likely to be encountered when building |
bd7bdff8 | 340 | Emacs stem from using an old version of GCC, or old MinGW or W32 API |
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341 | headers. Additionally, cygwin ports of GNU make may require the Emacs |
342 | source tree to be mounted with text!=binary, because the makefiles | |
343 | generated by configure.bat necessarily use DOS line endings. Also, | |
344 | cygwin ports of make must run in UNIX mode, either by specifying | |
345 | --unix on the command line, or MAKE_MODE=UNIX in the environment. | |
a4a9692d | 346 | |
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347 | When configure runs, it attempts to detect when GCC itself, or the |
348 | headers it is using, are not suitable for building Emacs. GCC version | |
349 | 2.95 or later is needed, because that is when the Windows port gained | |
350 | sufficient support for anonymous structs and unions to cope with some | |
351 | definitions from winnt.h that are used by addsection.c. The W32 API | |
352 | headers that come with Cygwin b20.1 are incomplete, and do not include | |
353 | some definitions required by addsection.c, for instance. Also, older | |
354 | releases of the W32 API headers from Anders Norlander contain a typo | |
355 | in the definition of IMAGE_FIRST_SECTION in winnt.h, which | |
356 | addsection.c relies on. Versions of w32api-xxx.zip from at least | |
357 | 1999-11-18 onwards are okay. | |
a4a9692d | 358 | |
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359 | When in doubt about correctness of what configure did, look at the file |
360 | config.log, which shows all the failed test programs and compiler | |
361 | messages associated with the failures. If that doesn't give a clue, | |
362 | please report the problems, together with the relevant fragments from | |
363 | config.log, as bugs. | |
364 | ||
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365 | If configure succeeds, but make fails, install the Cygwin port of |
366 | Bash, even if the table above indicates that Emacs should be able to | |
367 | build without sh.exe. (Some versions of Windows shells are too dumb | |
368 | for Makefile's used by Emacs.) | |
369 | ||
8481e41e | 370 | If you are using certain Cygwin builds of GCC, such as Cygwin version |
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371 | 1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so: |
372 | ||
373 | configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__ | |
315746cc | 374 | --ldflags -mwin32 |
6d76a603 | 375 | |
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376 | However, the latest Cygwin versions, such as 1.3.3, don't need those |
377 | switches; you can simply use "configure --with-gcc". | |
378 | ||
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379 | We will attempt to auto-detect the need for these flags in a future |
380 | release. | |
381 | ||
382 | * Debugging | |
a4a9692d | 383 | |
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384 | You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is |
385 | appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if | |
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386 | compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC. (GDB for Windows |
387 | is available from the MinGW site, http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.) | |
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388 | |
389 | When Emacs aborts due to a fatal internal error, Emacs on Windows | |
390 | pops up an Emacs Abort Dialog asking you whether you want to debug | |
391 | Emacs or terminate it. If Emacs was built with MSVC, click YES | |
392 | twice, and Windbg or the DevStudio debugger will start up | |
393 | automatically. If Emacs was built with GCC, first start GDB and | |
394 | attach it to the Emacs process with the "gdb -p EMACS-PID" command, | |
395 | where EMACS-PID is the Emacs process ID (which you can see in the | |
396 | Windows Task Manager), type the "continue" command inside GDB, and | |
397 | only then click YES on the abort dialog. This will pass control to | |
398 | the debugger, and you will be able to debug the cause of the fatal | |
399 | error. | |
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400 | |
401 | Emacs functions implemented in C use a naming convention that reflects | |
402 | their names in lisp. The names of the C routines are the lisp names | |
403 | prefixed with 'F', and with dashes converted to underscores. For | |
404 | example, the function call-process is implemented in C by | |
405 | Fcall_process. Similarly, lisp variables are prefixed with 'V', again | |
406 | with dashes converted to underscores. These conventions enable you to | |
407 | easily set breakpoints or examine familiar lisp variables by name. | |
408 | ||
409 | Since Emacs data is often in the form of a lisp object, and the | |
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410 | Lisp_Object type is difficult to examine manually in a debugger, |
411 | Emacs provides a helper routine called debug_print that prints out a | |
412 | readable representation of a Lisp_Object. If you are using GDB, | |
413 | there is a .gdbinit file in the src directory which provides | |
414 | definitions that are useful for examining lisp objects. Therefore, | |
415 | the following tips are mainly of interest when using MSVC. | |
416 | ||
417 | The output from debug_print is sent to stderr, and to the debugger | |
418 | via the OutputDebugString routine. The output sent to stderr should | |
419 | be displayed in the console window that was opened when the | |
420 | emacs.exe executable was started. The output sent to the debugger | |
421 | should be displayed in its "Debug" output window. | |
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422 | |
423 | When you are in the process of debugging Emacs and you would like to | |
424 | examine the contents of a Lisp_Object variable, popup the QuickWatch | |
425 | window (QuickWatch has an eyeglass symbol on its button in the | |
426 | toolbar). In the text field at the top of the window, enter | |
427 | debug_print(<variable>) and hit return. For example, start and run | |
428 | Emacs in the debugger until it is waiting for user input. Then click | |
429 | on the Break button in the debugger to halt execution. Emacs should | |
430 | halt in ZwUserGetMessage waiting for an input event. Use the Call | |
431 | Stack window to select the procedure w32_msp_pump up the call stack | |
432 | (see below for why you have to do this). Open the QuickWatch window | |
433 | and enter debug_print(Vexec_path). Evaluating this expression will | |
434 | then print out the contents of the lisp variable exec-path. | |
435 | ||
436 | If QuickWatch reports that the symbol is unknown, then check the call | |
437 | stack in the Call Stack window. If the selected frame in the call | |
438 | stack is not an Emacs procedure, then the debugger won't recognize | |
439 | Emacs symbols. Instead, select a frame that is inside an Emacs | |
440 | procedure and try using debug_print again. | |
441 | ||
442 | If QuickWatch invokes debug_print but nothing happens, then check the | |
443 | thread that is selected in the debugger. If the selected thread is | |
444 | not the last thread to run (the "current" thread), then it cannot be | |
445 | used to execute debug_print. Use the Debug menu to select the current | |
446 | thread and try using debug_print again. Note that the debugger halts | |
447 | execution (e.g., due to a breakpoint) in the context of the current | |
448 | thread, so this should only be a problem if you've explicitly switched | |
449 | threads. | |
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451 | \f |
452 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
4b994b84 | 453 | |
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