Building and Installing Emacs
on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME
- Copyright (c) 2001,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
- See the end of the file for copying permissions.
+ Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
+ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+* For the impatient
+
+ Here are the concise instructions for configuring and building the
+ 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
+
+ 2. Run configure.bat. From the COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE command prompt:
+
+ configure
+
+ from a Unixy shell prompt:
+
+ cmd /c configure.bat
+ or
+ command.com /c configure.bat
+
+ 3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment. If you build
+ with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using
+ VC++ 8.0 and later below):
+
+ nmake
+
+ For the development environments based on GNU GCC (MinGW, MSYS,
+ Cygwin - but see notes about Cygwin make below), depending on how
+ Make is called, it could be:
+
+ make
+ or
+ mingw32-make
+ or
+ gnumake
+ or
+ gmake
+
+ (If you are building from CVS, say "make bootstrap" or "nmake
+ bootstrap" instead, and avoid using Cygwin make.)
+
+ With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have
+ Make execute several commands at once, like this:
+
+ gmake -j 2 XMFLAGS="-j 2"
+
+ The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make
+ on Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum
+ number of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows
+ up to 4 simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and
+ up to 3 in each one of the recursive Make's.
+
+ 4. Generate the Info manuals (only if you are building out of CVS, and
+ if you have makeinfo.exe installed):
+
+ make info
+
+ (change "make" to "nmake" if you use MSVC).
+
+ 5. Install the produced binaries:
+
+ make install
+
+ That's it!
+
+ If these short instructions somehow fail, read the rest of this
+ file.
+
+* Preliminaries
+
+ If you want to build a Cygwin port of Emacs, use the instructions in
+ the INSTALL file in the main Emacs directory (the parent of this
+ directory). These instructions are for building a native Windows
+ binary of Emacs.
If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to
remove the files and unpack again with a different program!
cvs update -kb
- (WARNING: Do NOT use this suggestion if you have write access to the
- Emacs CVS tree and intend to commit changes to CVS. This is because -kb
- is sticky: it will be used in all future CVS operations on the files you
- check out like this.) Alternatively, use programs that convert
- end-of-line format, such as dos2unix and unix2dos available from
- GnuWin32 or dtou and utod from the DJGPP project.
+ Alternatively, use programs that convert end-of-line format, such as
+ dos2unix and unix2dos available from GnuWin32 or dtou and utod from
+ the DJGPP project.
In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the
parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of
"touch.exe" in your path, and that it will create files that do not
yet exist.
- To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or
- later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
- and W32 API support and a port of GNU make. You can use the Cygwin
- ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and libraries to
- build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3,
- include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part).
-
- Other compilers may work, but specific reports from people that have
- tried suggest that the Intel C compiler (for example) may produce an
- Emacs executable with strange filename completion behaviour. Unless
- you would like to assist by finding and fixing the cause of any bugs
- like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned
- in the previous paragraph.
-
- You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These
- and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from one of several
- projects:
-
- * http://www.mingw.org/ ( MinGW )
- * http://www.cygwin.com/ ( Cygwin )
- * http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ( UnxUtils )
- * http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ( GnuWin32 )
-
- 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.
-
- Additional instructions and help for building Emacs on Windows can be
- found at the Emacs Wiki:
-
- http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
-
- and at this URL:
-
- http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
-
- For reference, here is a list of which builds of GNU make are known
- to work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence
- of sh.exe, the Cygwin port of Bash. Note that any version of make
- that is compiled with Cygwin will only work with Cygwin tools, due to
- the use of cygwin style paths. This means Cygwin make is unsuitable
- for building parts of Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and
- "make bootstrap", for example). Also see the Trouble-shooting section
- below if you decide to go ahead and use Cygwin make.
+* Supported development environments
+
+ To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0, or
+ later up to 7.0, and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later
+ with MinGW and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make. You can use
+ the Cygwin ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the MinGW headers and
+ libraries to build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least
+ since v1.3.3, include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral
+ part).
+
+ Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not
+ supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into
+ the libraries shipped with the compiler.
+
+ 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! 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
+ Make, either the standard COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE supplied with Windows
+ or sh.exe., a port of a Unixy shell. For reference, below is a list
+ of which builds of GNU Make are known to work or not, and whether
+ they work in the presence and/or absence of sh.exe, the Cygwin port
+ of Bash. Note that any version of Make that is compiled with Cygwin
+ will only work with Cygwin tools, due to the use of cygwin style
+ paths. This means Cygwin Make is unsuitable for building parts of
+ Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and "make bootstrap",
+ for example). Also see the Trouble-shooting section below if you
+ decide to go ahead and use Cygwin make.
In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process,
- at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use cmd.exe, the default NT shell,
+ at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use CMD.EXE, the default Windows shell,
instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have
MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe
instead of sh.exe.
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: 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 unknown[6]
+ 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] please report if you try this combination.
+ [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
+ Emacs executable with strange filename completion behaviour. Unless
+ you would like to assist by finding and fixing the cause of any bugs
+ like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned
+ in the previous paragraph.
+
+ You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These
+ and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from one of several
+ projects:
+
+ * http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ( GnuWin32 )
+ * http://www.mingw.org/ ( MinGW )
+ * http://www.cygwin.com/ ( Cygwin )
+ * http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ( UnxUtils )
+
+ 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. That is
+ because the native Windows shell COMMAND.COM is too limited; the
+ Emacs build procedure tries very hard to support even such limited
+ shells, but as none of the Windows developers of Emacs work on
+ Windows 9x, we cannot guarantee that it works without a more
+ powerful shell.
+
+ Additional instructions and help for building Emacs on Windows can be
+ found at the Emacs Wiki:
+
+ http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
+
+ and on these URLs:
+
+ http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
+ http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx
+
+ The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC,
+ as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but
+ has more details about it.
* Configuring
Configuration of Emacs is now handled by running configure.bat in the
- nt subdirectory. It will detect which compiler you have available,
+ `nt' subdirectory. It will detect which compiler you have available,
and generate makefiles accordingly. You can override the compiler
detection, and control optimization and debug settings, by specifying
options on the command line when invoking configure.
To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available,
- simply change to the nt subdirectory and run `configure' with no
+ 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/w32-build-emacs.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
After running configure, simply run the appropriate `make' program for
your compiler to build Emacs. For MSVC, this is nmake; for GCC, it is
- GNU make.
+ GNU make. (If you are building out of CVS, say "make bootstrap" or
+ "nmake bootstrap" instead.)
As the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages
declaring that some functions don't return a value, or that some data
The warnings may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but
until then we will just live with them.
+ With GNU Make, you can use the -j command-line option to have Make
+ execute several commands at once, like this:
+
+ gmake -j 4 XMFLAGS="-j 3"
+
+ The XMFLAGS variable overrides the default behavior of GNU Make on
+ Windows, whereby recursive Make invocations reset the maximum number
+ of simultaneous commands to 1. The above command allows up to 4
+ simultaneous commands at once in the top-level Make, and up to 3 in
+ each one of the recursive Make's; you can use other numbers of jobs,
+ if you wish.
+
+ If you are building from CVS, the following commands will produce
+ the Info manuals (which are not part of the CVS repository):
+
+ make info
+ or
+ nmake info
+
+ Note that you will need makeinfo.exe (from the GNU Texinfo package)
+ in order for this command to succeed.
+
* Installing
To install Emacs after it has compiled, simply run `nmake install'
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
+ Emacs or terminate it. If Emacs was built with MSVC, click YES
+ twice, and Windbg or the DevStudio debugger will start up
+ automatically. If Emacs was built with GCC, first start GDB and
+ attach it to the Emacs process with the "gdb -p EMACS-PID" command,
+ where EMACS-PID is the Emacs process ID (which you can see in the
+ Windows Task Manager), type the "continue" command inside GDB, and
+ only then click YES on the abort dialog. This will pass control to
+ the debugger, and you will be able to debug the cause of the fatal
+ error.
Emacs functions implemented in C use a naming convention that reflects
their names in lisp. The names of the C routines are the lisp names
easily set breakpoints or examine familiar lisp variables by name.
Since Emacs data is often in the form of a lisp object, and the
- Lisp_Object type is difficult to examine manually in the MSVC
- debugger, Emacs provides a helper routine called debug_print that
- prints out a readable representation of a Lisp_Object. (If you are
- using gdb, there is a .gdbinit file in the src directory which
- provides definitions that are useful for examining lisp objects. The
- following tips are mainly of interest when using MSVC.) The output
- from debug_print is sent to stderr, and to the debugger via the
- OutputDebugString routine. The output sent to stderr should be
- displayed in the console window that was opened when the emacs.exe
- executable was started. The output sent to the debugger should be
- displayed in its "Debug" output window.
+ Lisp_Object type is difficult to examine manually in a debugger,
+ Emacs provides a helper routine called debug_print that prints out a
+ readable representation of a Lisp_Object. If you are using GDB,
+ there is a .gdbinit file in the src directory which provides
+ definitions that are useful for examining lisp objects. Therefore,
+ the following tips are mainly of interest when using MSVC.
+
+ The output from debug_print is sent to stderr, and to the debugger
+ via the OutputDebugString routine. The output sent to stderr should
+ be displayed in the console window that was opened when the
+ emacs.exe executable was started. The output sent to the debugger
+ should be displayed in its "Debug" output window.
When you are in the process of debugging Emacs and you would like to
examine the contents of a Lisp_Object variable, popup the QuickWatch
thread, so this should only be a problem if you've explicitly switched
threads.
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+
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