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-Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-See the end of the file for license conditions.
-
- Precompiled Distributions of
- Emacs for Windows
-
- Version 24.3
-
- March 18, 2013
-
- This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
- Windows (versions before Windows 95 and NT4 are not supported).
- This port is a part of the standard GNU Emacs distribution from the
- Free Software Foundation; the precompiled distributions are provided
- here for convenience since the majority of Windows users are not
- accustomed to compiling programs themselves. Corresponding source
- can be found in the parent directory in emacs-24.3.tar.gz.
-
-* IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
-
- If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
- Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance,
- if you put the emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip file from this directory on
- an Internet site, you must arrange to distribute the source files of
- the SAME version (i.e. ../emacs-24.3.tar.gz).
-
- Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
- might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
- old binaries.
-
-
-* Files in this directory
-
- + emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip
- Windows binaries of Emacs-24.3, with all lisp code and documentation
- included.
-
- Download this file if you want a single installation package, and
- are not interested in the C source code for Emacs. After
- unpacking, you can optionally run the file bin/addpm.exe to have
- Emacs add icons to the Start Menu.
-
- If you need the C source code at a later date, it will be safe to
- unpack the source distribution on top of this installation.
-
- + libXpm-3.5.8-w32-src.zip
- Source code required to compile libXpm-3.5.8 on Windows. Contains
- a basic Makefile for compiling with mingw32 and a .def file for
- generating a DLL with the appropriate exports in addition to the
- source code to provide the subset of functionality Emacs uses from
- libXpm. This corresponds to the libXpm.dll in emacs-24.3-bin-i386.zip.
-
-* Prerequisites for running Emacs on Windows 9X
-
- Using Emacs in GUI mode on Windows 95/98/Me requires the UNICOWS.DLL
- dynamic library, which provides MSLU, the Microsoft Unicode Layer
- for Windows 9X. You can freely download it from the Microsoft site.
-
-* Image support
-
- Emacs 24.3 contains support for images, however for most image
- formats supporting libraries are required. This distribution has
- been tested with the libraries that are distributed with GTK for
- Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php), and the libraries
- found at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/. The following image
- formats are supported:
-
- PBM/PGM/PPM: Supported natively by Emacs. This format is used for
- the black and white versions of the toolbar icons.
-
- XPM: a Windows port of the XPM library corresponding to the x.org
- release of X11R7.3 is included with the binary distribution, but
- can be replaced by other versions with the name xpm4.dll,
- libxpm-nox4.dll or libxpm.dll.
-
- PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later, which will
- be named libpng14.dll or libpng14-14.dll. LibPNG requires zlib,
- which should come from the same source as you got libpng.
- Starting with Emacs 23.3, the precompiled Emacs binaries are
- built with libpng 1.4.x and later, and are incompatible with
- earlier versions of libpng DLLs. So if you have libpng 1.2.x,
- the PNG support will not work, and you will have to download
- newer versions.
-
- 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.
-
- GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
- called giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
-
- SVG: not compiled into the binary release, but available if you
- compile Emacs yourself if you have development packages for all the
- dependencies. Requires many libraries from GTK and Gnome
- as well as the base librsvg library. Known to crash Emacs on many
- sample images.
-
-* XML support
-
- In order to support XML via libxml2 at runtime, a libxml2-enabled
- Emacs must be able to find the relevant DLLs during startup; failure
- to do so is not an error, but libxml2 features won't be available to
- the running session.
-
- You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
- header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
-
-* Distributions in .tar.gz and .zip format
-
- Emacs is distributed primarily as source code in a large gzipped tar
- file (*.tar.gz). Because Emacs is quite large and therefore
- difficult to download over unreliable connections, the Windows
- binaries are provided in two combinations. The complete lisp source
- plus executables (bin), and executables only (barebin) for unpacking
- over the top of the source distribution. Formerly, we used the same
- .tar.gz format but since there are no longer legal problems with
- .zip files, and the latest versions of Windows support these
- natively, the Windows binaries of Emacs are now distributed as .zip
- files.
-
-* Distributions for non-x86 platforms
-
- Distributions for non-x86 platforms are no longer supplied. Older
- platforms supported by Windows NT no longer seem to be in demand,
- and Emacs is yet to be ported to 64 bit Windows platforms. If you
- are willing to help port Emacs 24 to 64 bit versions of Windows,
- your contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
-
-* Unpacking distributions
-
- Ports of GNU gzip and GNU tar for handling the source distribution file
- format can be found in several places that distribute ports of GNU
- programs, for example:
-
- Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
- GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
-
- Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
- able to handle gzipped tar files. 7zip is one free Windows graphical
- program that is able to handle many archive formats.
-
- Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window. Decide on a directory in which
- to place Emacs. Move the distribution to that directory, and then
- unpack it as follows.
-
- If you have the gzipped tar version, use gunzip to uncompress the tar
- file on the fly, and pipe the output through tar with the "xvf" flags
- to extract the files from the tar file:
-
- % gunzip -c some.tar.gz | tar xvf -
-
- You may see messages from tar about not being able to change the
- modification time on directories, and from gunzip complaining about a
- broken pipe. These messages are harmless and you can ignore them. On
- Windows NT, unpacking tarballs this way leaves them in compressed
- form, taking up less space on disk. Unfortunately, on Windows 95 and
- 98, a large temporary file is created, so it is better to use the
- djtarnt.exe program, which performs the equivalent operation in one
- step:
-
- % djtarnt -x some.tar.gz
-
- You may be prompted to rename or overwrite directories when using
- djtarnt: simply type return to continue (this is harmless).
-
- Zip files can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
- if you do not already have other tools to do this.
-
- % unzip some.zip
-
- The precompiled binaries can be unpacked using unzip.exe from info-zip.org
- if you do not already have other tools to do this.
-
- % unzip some.zip
-
- Once you have unpacked a precompiled distribution of Emacs, it should
- have the following subdirectories:
-
- bin etc info lisp site-lisp
-
-
-* Unpacking with other tools
-
- If you do use other utility programs to unpack the distribution, check
- the following to be sure the distribution was not corrupted:
-
- + Be sure to disable the CR/LF translation or the executables will
- be unusable. Older versions of WinZip would enable this
- translation by default when unpacking .tar files. If you are
- using WinZip, disable it. (I don't have WinZip myself, and I do
- not know the specific commands necessary to disable it.)
-
- + Check that filenames were not truncated to 8.3. For example, there
- should be a file lisp/abbrevlist.el; if this has been truncated to
- abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
- and Emacs will not start.
-
- + Check that filenames were not changed by your web-browser. Some
- proprietary web-browsers save .tar.gz files as .tar.tar. You might
- like to consider switching to a Free modern browser if your browser
- has this bug.
-
- + I've also had reports that some older "gnuwin32" port of tar
- corrupts the executables. Use the latest version from the gnuwin32
- site or another port of tar instead.
-
- If you believe you have unpacked the distributions correctly and are
- still encountering problems, see the section on Further Information
- below.
-
-
-* Compiling from source
-
- If you would like to compile Emacs from source, download the source
- distribution, unpack it in the same manner as a precompiled
- distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
- directions. It is recommended to use GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
- support to compile the source. The port of GCC included in Cygwin
- is supported, but check the nt/INSTALL file if you have trouble
- since some builds of GNU make aren't supported.
-
-
-* Further information
-
- The Emacs on MS Windows FAQ is distributed with Emacs (info
- manual "efaq-w32"), and at
-
- https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
-
- In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
- related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
- list, see this Web page:
-
- https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows
-
- To ask questions on the mailing list, send email to
- help-emacs-windows@gnu.org. (You don't need to subscribe for that.)
- To subscribe to the list or unsubscribe from it, fill the form you
- find at https://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows as
- explained there.
-
- Another valuable source of information and help which should not be
- overlooked is the various Usenet news groups dedicated to Emacs.
- These are particularly good for help with general issues which aren't
- specific to the Windows port of Emacs. The main news groups to use
- for seeking help are:
-
- gnu.emacs.help
- comp.emacs
-
- There are also fairly regular postings and announcements of new or
- updated Emacs packages on this group:
-
- gnu.emacs.sources
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Most of this README was contributed by former maintainers Andrew Innes
- (andrewi@gnu.org) and Jason Rumney (jasonr@gnu.org).
-
-\f
-This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
-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 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-
-GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-along with GNU Emacs. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+See the end of the file for license conditions.
+
+ Precompiled Distributions of
+ Emacs for Windows
+
+ Jan 1, 2020
+
+ This directory contains precompiled distributions for GNU Emacs on
+ Windows
+
+IMPORTANT LEGAL REMINDER
+========================
+
+If you want to redistribute any of the precompiled distributions of
+Emacs, be careful to check the implications of the GPL. For instance,
+if you put the compiled file from this directory on an Internet site,
+you must arrange to distribute the source files of the SAME version.
+
+Making a link to our copy of the source is NOT sufficient, since we
+might upgrade to a new version while you are still distributing the
+old binaries.
+
+
Windows Binaries
================
-Currently, we provide four different binary packages for Emacs, which
+Currently, we provide six different binary packages for Emacs, which
are:
+emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-installer.exe
+
+Contains a 64-bit build of Emacs with dependencies as an installer
+package. Mostly, this is the best one to install.
+
emacs-$VERSION-x86_64.zip
-Contains a 64-bit build of Emacs with dependencies. Mostly, this is
-the best one to install.
+Contains a 64-bit build of Emacs with dependencies. This contains the
+same files as the installer but as a zip file which some users may
+prefer.
emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-no-deps.zip
-Contains a 64-bit build of Emacs without any dependencies. This may be
+Contains a 64-bit build of Emacs without any dependencies. This may be
useful if you wish to install where the dependencies are already
available, or if you want the small possible Emacs.
+emacs-$VERSION-i686-installer.exe
+
+Contains a 32-bit build of Emacs with dependencies as an installer
+package. This is useful for running on a 32-bit machine.
+
emacs-$VERSION-i686.zip
-Contains a 32-bit build of Emacs with dependencies. This is useful for
-running on a 32-bit machine.
+Contains a 32-bit build of Emacs with dependencies.
emacs-$VERSION-i686-no-deps.zip
In addition, we provide the following files which will not be useful
for most end-users.
-emacs-27-x86_64-deps.zip
+emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-deps.zip
The dependencies. Unzipping this file on top of
emacs-$VERSION-x86_64-no-deps.zip should result in the same install as
emacs-27-deps-mingw-w64-src.zip
-The source for the dependencies. Source for Emacs itself is available
-in the main distribution tarball. These dependencies were produced
-from an updated msys2 at the point of the first pre-test. It is not
-intended that these will be updated after that point.
\ No newline at end of file
+The source for the dependencies. Source for Emacs itself is available
+in the main distribution tarball. These dependencies were produced
+from an updated msys2 at the point of the first pre-test. It is not
+intended that these will be updated after that point.
+
+Source for Emacs itself is found in the directory above.
+
+Snapshots
+=========
+
+We also distribute "snapshots" of Emacs built at points throughout the
+development cycle, for those interested in following this cycle. They
+are not recommended for normal users.
+
+The files follow the same naming convention, but also include a date
+(and sometimes information about their branch). The Emacs source at
+the time of these builds is also distributed.
+
+
+LICENSE
+======
+
+This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+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 3 of the License, or
+(at your option) any later version.
+
+GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+along with GNU Emacs. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
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