Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable
files in the bin directory.
- + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
+ + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application,
it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer.
+ runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application
- without popping up a command prompt window.
+ without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a
+ desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this
+ executable, not to emacs.exe.
+ emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can
- communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server'
+ communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server'
node of the Emacs manual.
+ emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open
+ addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs.
Running this is optional.
- + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with
- the native shells in various versions of Windows.
-
+ ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the
- `Tags' node of the Emacs manual.
+ `Tags' node of the Emacs manual.
+ ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the
`Ebrowse' manual.
+ Several helper programs are installed in a version-specific
+ subdirectory of the libexec directory:
+
+ + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with
+ the native shells in various versions of Windows.
+
+ ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. To be
invoked as "ddeclient SERVER [TOPIC]", where SERVER is the DDE
server name, and sends each line of its standard input to the DDE
supposed to be invoked via the 'call-process-region' Emacs
primitive.
- + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the
+ + hexl.exe - A tool for producing hex dumps of binary files. See the
`Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual.
+ movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from
a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the
`Movemail' node of the Emacs manual.
+ + profile.exe - A helper program that generates periodic events for
+ profiling Emacs Lisp code.
+
+ + update-game-score.exe - A utility for updating the score files of
+ Emacs games.
+
* Further information
The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
This server contains other distributions, including the full Emacs
- source distribution and a barebin distribution which can be installed
- over it, as well as older releases of Emacs for Windows.
+ source distribution, as well as older releases of Emacs for Windows.
Information on how to compile Emacs from sources on Windows is in
- the files README and INSTALL in this directory. If you received
- this file as part of the Emacs source distribution, please read
- those 2 files and not this one.
+ the files README and INSTALL in the nt/ sub-directory of the
+ top-level Emacs directory in the source distribution. If you
+ received this file as part of the Emacs source distribution, and are
+ looking for information on how to build Emacs on MS-Windows, please
+ read those 2 files and not this one.
* Preliminaries
* Setting up Emacs
To install Emacs, simply unpack all the files into a directory of
- your choice, but note that you might encounter minor problems if
- there is a space anywhere in the directory name. To complete the
- installation process, you can optionally run the program addpm.exe
- in the bin subdirectory. This will put an icon for Emacs in the
- Start Menu under "Start -> Programs -> Gnu Emacs".
+ your choice. To complete the installation process, you can
+ optionally run the program addpm.exe in the bin subdirectory. This
+ will put an icon for Emacs in the Start Menu under
+ "Start -> Programs -> Gnu Emacs".
Some users have reported that the Start Menu item is not created for
them. If this happens, just create your own shortcut to runemacs.exe,
downloaded from the Microsoft site, and comes in a form of a single
dynamic library called UNICOWS.DLL. If this library is not
accessible to Emacs, it will pop up a dialog saying that it cannot
- find the library, and will refuse to start up a GUI session.
- (However, it is still possible to use Emacs in text mode, even
- without UNICOWS.DLL, by invoking it as "emacs -nw", see below.)
+ find the library, and will refuse to start up.
* Starting Emacs
* Image support
Emacs has built in support for XBM and PPM/PGM/PBM images, and the
+ libXpm library is bundled, providing XPM support (required for color
+ toolbar icons and splash screen). Source for libXpm should be available
+ from the same place from which you got this binary distribution.
+
+ Emacs can also support some other image formats with appropriate
libraries. These libraries are all available on the following sites:
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
-- leaner, more up-to-date builds, only for 32-bit Emacs
2. http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php
- -- GTK project site; offers much fatter builds, but includes 64-bit
- DLLs
+ -- the GTK project site; offers much fatter builds, but includes
+ 64-bit DLLs (from the 2nd URL)
3. GnuWin32 project -- very old builds, not recommended
- Emacs will find these libraries if the directory they are installed
- in is on the PATH.
+ The libraries to download are mentioned below. Some libraries
+ depend on others that need to be downloaded separately from the same
+ site; please consult the download instructions on each site for the
+ details. In general, the ezwinports site mentioned above has all
+ the dependencies bundled in the same zip archive, so installing from
+ there is the easiest.
- Emacs can also support some other image formats with appropriate
- libraries. These libraries are all available as part of GTK
- download for Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php), or
- from the GnuWin32 project. Emacs will find them if the directory
- they are installed in is on the PATH.
+ Emacs will find these libraries if the directory they are installed
+ in is on the PATH or in the same directory where you have emacs.exe.
+ Here are some specific comments about each image type:
PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later, which will
be named libpngNN.dll or libpngNN-NN.dll. LibPNG requires zlib,
JPEG: requires the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
- TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
- or libtiff.dll.
+ TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiffN.dll
+ or libtiff-N.dll or libtiff.dll.
GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
called libgif-6.dll, giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
librsvg-2-2.dll. SVG also requires several dependency DLLs,
such as Pango, Cairo, and Glib, all of them found on the
above-mentioned sites. If you download from the ezwinports
- site, you need only librsvg-2.nn.x-bin.zip, it comes with all
- the other dependencies bundled.
+ site, you need only librsvg-2.nn.mm-x-w32-bin.zip, it comes with
+ all the other dependencies bundled.
If you have image support DLLs under different names, customize the
value of `dynamic-library-alist'.
- In addition, Emacs can be compiled to support SVG. This precompiled
- distribution has not been compiled that way, since the SVG library
- or one or more of its extensive dependencies appear to be
- unreliable under Windows. See nt/INSTALL in the src distribution if
- you wish to compile Emacs with SVG support.
-
* GnuTLS support
GnuTLS provides SSL/TLS network support for Emacs (https, imaps and
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