native Windows binary of Emacs, for those who want to skip the
complex explanations and ``just do it'':
+ Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin,
+ use the normal installation instructions, ../INSTALL.
+
1. Change to the `nt' directory (the directory of this file):
cd nt
The rest of this file assumes you have a working development
environment. If you just installed such an environment, try
building a trivial C "Hello world" program, and see if it works. If
- it doesn't work, resolve that problem first!
+ it doesn't work, resolve that problem first! If you use Microsoft
+ Visual Studio .NET 2003, don't forget to run the VCVARS32.BAT batch
+ file from the `Bin' subdirectory of the directory where you have
+ installed VS.NET.
If you use the MinGW port of GCC and GNU Make to build Emacs, there
are some compatibility issues wrt Make and the shell that is run by
cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5]
cygwin compiled make 3.78.1: fails[5] fails[2, 5]
cygwin compiled make 3.79.1: fails[3, 5] fails[2?, 5]
- cygwin compiled make 3.80: fails?[6] fails?[6]
- cygwin compiled make 3.81: fails fails?[6]
+ cygwin compiled make 3.80: okay[6] fails?[7]
+ cygwin compiled make 3.81: fails fails?[7]
mingw32 compiled make 3.79.1: okay okay
- mingw32 compiled make 3.80: okay okay[6]
- mingw32 compiled make 3.81: okay okay[7]
+ mingw32 compiled make 3.80: okay okay[7]
+ mingw32 compiled make 3.81: okay okay[8]
Notes:
[4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash.
[5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths.
May work if building emacs without leim.
- [6] not recommended; please report if you try this combination.
- [7] tested only on Windows XP.
+ [6] need to uncomment 3 lines in nt/gmake.defs that invoke `cygpath'
+ (look for "cygpath" near line 85 of gmake.defs).
+ [7] not recommended; please report if you try this combination.
+ [8] tested only on Windows XP.
Other compilers may work, but specific reports from people that have
tried suggest that the Intel C compiler (for example) may produce an
To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available,
simply change to the `nt' subdirectory and run `configure.bat' with no
options. To see what options are available, run `configure --help'.
+ Do NOT use the --no-debug option to configure.bat unless you are
+ absolutely sure the produced binaries will never need to be run under
+ a debugger.
N.B. It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure
is running, when gcc support is being tested. These cannot be
Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at
the GnuWin32 project. These are built with MinGW, but they can be
used with both GCC/MinGW and MSVC builds of Emacs. See the info on
- http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html for more details about
- installing image support libraries.
+ http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html, under "How to Get
+ Images Support", for more details about installing image support
+ libraries. Note specifically that, due to some packaging snafus in
+ the GnuWin32-supplied image libraries, you will need to download
+ _source_ packages for some of the libraries in order to get the
+ header files necessary for building Emacs with image support.
* Building
You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is
appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if
- compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC.
+ compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC. (GDB for Windows
+ is available from the MinGW site, http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml.)
When Emacs aborts due to a fatal internal error, Emacs on Windows
pops up an Emacs Abort Dialog asking you whether you want to debug
GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
any later version.
GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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