* For the impatient
Here are the concise instructions for configuring and building the
- native Windows32 binary of Emacs on Windows, for those who want to skip
- the complex explanations and ``just do it'':
+ native Windows binary of Emacs, for those who want to skip the
+ complex explanations and ``just do it'':
1. Change to the `nt' directory (the directory 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 poarent 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!
WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems,