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   2 See the end of the file for license conditions.
   3
   4                       Precompiled Distributions of
   5                            Emacs for Windows
   6
   7                             Version 24.1
   8
   9                               January 1, 2011
  10
  11   This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
  12   Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
  13   This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
  14   Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
  15   here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
  16   accustomed to compiling programs themselves.  Corresponding source
  17   can be found in the parent directory in emacs-24.1.tar.gz.
  18
  19   If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
  20   your favorite web browser to the following document (if you haven't
  21   already):
  22
  23         http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
  24
  25 * IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
  26
  27   If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
  28   Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL.  For instance,
  29   if you put the emacs-24.1-bin-i386.tar.gz file from this directory on
  30   an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
  31   the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-24.1.tar.gz).
  32
  33   Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
  34   might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
  35   old binaries.
  36
  37
  38 * Files in this directory
  39
  40   + emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip
  41     Windows binaries of Emacs-24.1, with all lisp code and documentation
  42     included.
  43
  44     Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
  45     are not interested in the C source code for Emacs. After
  46     unpacking, you can optionally run the file bin/addpm.exe to have
  47     Emacs add icons to the Start Menu.
  48
  49     If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
  50     unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
  51
  52   + emacs-24.1-barebin-i386.zip
  53     Windows binaries of Emacs-24.1, without lisp code or documentation.
  54
  55     Download this file if you already have the source distribution.
  56
  57     Unpack this over the top of the source distribution. It contains the
  58     bin subdirectory and etc/DOC file.
  59
  60   + libxpm-3.5.7-w32-src.zip
  61     Source code required to compile libXpm-3.5.7 on Windows. Contains
  62     a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
  63     generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
  64     source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
  65     libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-24.1-bin-i386.zip
  66     and emacs-24.1-barebin-i386.zip.
  67
  68 * Prerequisites for running Emacs on Windows 9X
  69
  70   Using Emacs in GUI mode on Windows 95/98/Me requires the UNICOWS.DLL
  71   dynamic library, which provides MSLU, the Microsoft Unicode Layer
  72   for Windows 9X.  You can freely download it from the Microsoft site.
  73
  74 * Image support
  75
  76   Emacs 24.1 contains support for images, however for most image
  77   formats supporting libraries are required.  This distribution has
  78   been tested with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for
  79   Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php), and the libraries
  80   found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
  81   formats are supported:
  82
  83       PBM/PGM/PPM: Supported natively by Emacs. This format is used for
  84       the black and white versions of the toolbar icons.
  85
  86       XPM: a Windows port of the XPM library corresponding to the x.org
  87       release of X11R7.3 is included with the binary distribution, but
  88       can be replaced by other versions with the name xpm4.dll,
  89       libxpm-nox4.dll or libxpm.dll.
  90
  91       PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later, which will
  92       be named libpng14.dll or libpng14-14.dll.  LibPNG requires zlib,
  93       which should come from the same source as you got libpng.
  94       Starting with Emacs 23.3, the precompiled Emacs binaries are
  95       built with libpng 1.4.x and later, and are incompatible with
  96       earlier versions of libpng DLLs.  So if you have libpng 1.2.x,
  97       the PNG support will not work, and you will have to download
  98       newer versions.
  99
 100       JPEG: requires the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
 101       which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
 102
 103       TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
 104       or libtiff.dll.
 105
 106       GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
 107       called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
 108
 109       SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
 110       compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
 111       dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
 112       as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
 113       sample images.
 114
 115 * Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
 116
 117   Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
 118   file (*.tar.gz).  Because Emacs is quite large and therefore
 119   difficult to download over unreliable connections, the Windows
 120   binaries are provided in two combinations. The complete lisp source
 121   plus executables (bin), and executables only (barebin) for unpacking
 122   over the top of the source distribution.  Formerly, we used the same
 123   .tar.gz format but since there are no longer legal problems with
 124   .zip files, and the latest versions of Windows support these
 125   natively, the Windows binaries of Emacs are now distributed as .zip
 126   files.
 127
 128 * Distributions for non-x86 platforms
 129
 130   Distributions for non-x86 platforms are no longer supplied. Older
 131   platforms supported by Windows NT no longer seem to be in demand,
 132   and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64 bit Windows platforms. If you
 133   are willing to help port Emacs 24 to 64 bit versions of Windows,
 134   your contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
 135
 136 * Unpacking distributions
 137
 138   Ports of GNU gzip and GNU tar for handling the source distribution file
 139   format can be found in several places that distribute ports of GNU
 140   programs, for example:
 141
 142     Cygwin:   http://www.cygwin.com/
 143     GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
 144
 145   Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
 146   able to handle gzipped tar files. 7zip is one free Windows graphical
 147   program that is able to handle many archive formats.
 148
 149   Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window.  Decide on a directory in which
 150   to place Emacs.  Move the distribution to that directory, and then
 151   unpack it as follows.
 152
 153   If you have the gzipped tar version, use gunzip to uncompress the tar
 154   file on the fly, and pipe the output through tar with the "xvf" flags
 155   to extract the files from the tar file:
 156
 157     % gunzip -c some.tar.gz | tar xvf -
 158
 159   You may see messages from tar about not being able to change the
 160   modification time on directories, and from gunzip complaining about a
 161   broken pipe.  These messages are harmless and you can ignore them.  On
 162   Windows NT, unpacking tarballs this way leaves them in compressed
 163   form, taking up less space on disk.  Unfortunately, on Windows 95 and
 164   98, a large temporary file is created, so it is better to use the
 165   djtarnt.exe program, which performs the equivalent operation in one
 166   step:
 167
 168     % djtarnt -x some.tar.gz
 169
 170   You may be prompted to rename or overwrite directories when using
 171   djtarnt: simply type return to continue (this is harmless).
 172
 173   Zip files can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
 174   if you do not already have other tools to do this.
 175
 176     % unzip some.zip
 177
 178   The precompiled binaries can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
 179   if you do not already have other tools to do this.
 180
 181     % unzip some.zip
 182
 183   Once you have unpacked a precompiled distribution of Emacs, it should
 184   have the following subdirectories:
 185
 186         bin     etc     info    lisp    site-lisp
 187
 188
 189 * Unpacking with other tools
 190
 191   If you do use other utility programs to unpack the distribution, check
 192   the following to be sure the distribution was not corrupted:
 193
 194   + Be sure to disable the CR/LF translation or the executables will
 195     be unusable.  Older versions of WinZip would enable this
 196     translation by default when unpacking .tar files.  If you are
 197     using WinZip, disable it.  (I don't have WinZip myself, and I do
 198     not know the specific commands necessary to disable it.)
 199
 200   + Check that filenames were not truncated to 8.3.  For example, there
 201     should be a file lisp/abbrevlist.el; if this has been truncated to
 202     abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
 203     and Emacs will not start.
 204
 205   + Check that filenames were not changed by your web-browser.  Some
 206     proprietary web-browsers save .tar.gz files as .tar.tar. You might
 207     like to consider switching to a Free modern browser if your browser
 208     has this bug.
 209
 210   + I've also had reports that some older "gnuwin32" port of tar
 211     corrupts the executables.  Use the latest version from the gnuwin32
 212     site or another port of tar instead.
 213
 214   If you believe you have unpacked the distributions correctly and are
 215   still encountering problems, see the section on Further Information
 216   below.
 217
 218
 219 * Compiling from source
 220
 221   If you would like to compile Emacs from source, download the source
 222   distribution, unpack it in the same manner as a precompiled
 223   distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
 224   directions.  It is recommended to use GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
 225   support to compile the source.  The port of GCC included in Cygwin
 226   is supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble
 227   since some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
 228
 229
 230 * Further information
 231
 232   If you have access to the World Wide Web, I would recommend pointing
 233   your favorite web browser to following the document (if you haven't
 234   already):
 235
 236         http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
 237
 238   This document serves as an FAQ and a source for further information
 239   about the Windows port and related software packages. Note that as
 240   most of the information in that FAQ is for earlier versions, so some
 241   information may not be relevant to Emacs-24.1.
 242
 243   In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
 244   related to the Windows port of Emacs.  For information about the
 245   list, see this Web page:
 246
 247         http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
 248
 249   To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
 250   help-emacs-windows@gnu.org.  (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
 251   To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you
 252   find at http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
 253   explained there.
 254
 255   Another valuable source of information and help which should not be
 256   overlooked is the various Usenet news groups dedicated to Emacs.
 257   These are particularly good for help with general issues which aren't
 258   specific to the Windows port of Emacs.  The main news groups to use
 259   for seeking help are:
 260
 261         gnu.emacs.help
 262         comp.emacs
 263
 264   There are also fairly regular postings and announcements of new or
 265   updated Emacs packages on this group:
 266
 267         gnu.emacs.sources
 268
 269   Enjoy!
 270
 271   Jason Rumney
 272   (jasonr@gnu.org)
 273
 274   Most of this README was contributed by former maintainer Andrew Innes
 275   (andrewi@gnu.org)
 276
 277 \f
 278 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
 279
 280 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 281 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 282 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 283 (at your option) any later version.
 284
 285 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 286 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 287 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 288 GNU General Public License for more details.
 289
 290 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 291 along with GNU Emacs.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.