leim-21.3-src.tar.gz
-* Distributions in multi-file .zip format
-
- A second distribution in the form of multiple small .zip files is also
- provided, for the benefit of people who have unreliable internet
- connections, or who need to copy the distribution onto floppy disks:
-
- em213b*.zip
-
- This is equivalent to getting emacs-21.3-bin-i386.tar.gz above.
- The lisp source is available as em213l*.zip.
-
-
* Distributions for non-x86 platforms
- I try to make this port available for all platforms supported by
- Windows (it should build on all supported Windows NT/9x platforms).
- However, I do not always have access to non-x86 platforms, and so I
- cannot guarantee to provide precompiled distributions for the other
- platforms myself. If you find there are no binaries for your
- platform, and you have access to a Microsoft compiler, then you can
- download the source and compile Emacs yourself (and, if you do, please
- consider contributing your executables; send me mail and we can make
- arrangements for making them available on this ftp server.)
-
+ 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 64bit Windows platforms. If you are
+ willing to help port Emacs to 64bit versions of Emacs, your
+ contribution will be welcome on the emacs-devel mailing list.
* Unpacking distributions
- Programs for handling the distribution file formats can be found in
- the utilities directory:
+ Ports of GNU gzip and GNU tar for handling the distribution file
+ formats can be found in several places that distribute ports of GNU
+ programs, for example:
- http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/gnu/windows/emacs/utilities/
+ Cygwin: http://www.cygwin.com/
+ GnuWin32: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
- For gzipped tar files, you will need either gunzip.exe and tar.exe
- together, or djtarnt.exe. djtarnt.exe can also unpack .zip files. I
- strongly urge you to use these utilities since they were the ones used
- to create the distributions; the most common problem people have in
- trying to get Emacs to run is due to some other utility program
- corrupting the distribution while unpacking.
+ Many other popular file compression utilities for Windows are also
+ able to handle gzipped tar files.
Open a command prompt (MSDOS) window. Decide on a directory in which
to place Emacs. Move the distribution to that directory, and then
You may be prompted to rename or overwrite directories when using
djtarnt: simply type return to continue (this is harmless).
- If you have the multi-file .zip distribution, use djtarnt to unpack
- all of the .zip files:
-
- % djtarnt -x *.zip
-
Once you have unpacked a precompiled distribution of Emacs, it should
have the following subdirectories:
- bin etc info lisp lock site-lisp
-
- If your utility failed to create the lock directory, then you can
- simply create it by hand (it is initially empty).
-
- One final step is needed only when installing from the multi-file .zip
- distribution, in order to recreate emacs.exe from its fragments (it is
- too big to fit on a floppy even when zipped):
-
- % cd emacs-21.3\bin
- % stitch
+ bin etc info lisp site-lisp
* Unpacking with other tools
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 WinZipNT would enable this translation
- by default. If you are using WinZipNT, disable it. (I don't have
- WinZipNT myself, and I do not know the specific commands necessary
+ unusable. Older versions of WinZip would enable this translation
+ by default. 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
abbrevli.el, your distribution has been corrupted while unpacking
and Emacs will not start.
- + I've been told that some utilities (WinZip again?) don't create the
- lock subdirectory. The lock subdirectory needs to be created.
-
- + I've also had reports that the "gnu-win32" port of tar corrupts the
- executables. Use the version of tar or djtarnt in the utilities
- directory instead.
+ + 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
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.
- You can either use the Microsoft compiler included with Visual C++, or
- 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.
+ distribution, and look in the file nt/INSTALL for detailed
+ directions. You can either use the Microsoft compiler included with
+ Visual C++ 2003 or earlier, or 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
Enjoy!
- Andrew Innes
- (andrewi@gnu.org)
+ Jason Rumney
+ (jasonr@gnu.org)
+
+ Most of this README was contributed by former maintainer Andrew Innes
+ (andrewi@gnu.org)
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