Add more pointers to ports of Unix tools to Windows, and to the Emacs Wiki

(which contains building instructions for Windows).  Reword image library
instructions and remove obsolete incompatibility information.

diff --git a/nt/ChangeLog b/nt/ChangeLog
index fd4ee0ab190ba2e5010f8e3c21f4652dc1aa481b..33507ef581d6a7bdae7f9e0f65f2d0cba3c09e4f 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/ChangeLog
+++ b/nt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2005-05-24  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+       * INSTALL: Add more pointers to ports of Unix tools to Windows,
+       and to the Emacs Wiki (which contains building instructions for
+       Windows).  Reword image library instructions and remove obsolete
+       incompatibility information.
+
 2005-04-23  David Hunter  <hunterd42@comcast.net>  (tiny change)
 
        * config.nt (HAVE_PWD_H): Undef.

diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index a96f182452c02d6db4ba11914d85d22387e58179..539fb63ac58c88738eed2d0b4c297c493ff32142 100644 (file)
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
                      Building and Installing Emacs
                on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME
 
-  Copyright (c) 2001,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+  Copyright (c) 2001,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   See the end of the file for copying permissions.
 
   If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to
@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
   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
+  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
+  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).
 
@@ -34,14 +34,22 @@
   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 the Mingw or
-  Cygwin projects.
+  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.org/                        ( 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.
 
-  Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw and binaries.
+  Additional instructions and help for building Emacs on Windows can be
+  found at the Emacs Wiki:
+
+  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
 
   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
@@ -109,9 +117,13 @@
   able to detect the headers.
 
   To use the external image support, the DLLs implementing the
-  functionality must be found when Emacs is started, either on the PATH,
-  or in the same directory as emacs.exe.  Failure to find a library is
-  not an error; the associated image format will simply be unavailable.
+  functionality must be found when Emacs first needs them, either on the
+  PATH, or in the same directory as emacs.exe.  Failure to find a
+  library is not an error; the associated image format will simply be
+  unavailable.  Note that once Emacs has determined that a library can
+  not be found, there's no way to force it to try again, other than
+  restarting.  See the variable `image-library-alist' to configure the
+  expected names of the libraries.
 
   Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib.
   For example, tiff support depends on the jpeg library.  If you did not
@@ -120,14 +132,8 @@
   compatible (for example, that they were built with the same compiler).
 
   Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at
-  GnuWin32 (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net).  These are built with
-  MinGW, and so are very compatible with GCC/MinGW builds of Emacs (like
-  the official binary tarballs for Windows).  Compatibility with MSVC,
-  on the other hand, is still weak and should not be trusted in
-  production environments; if you really need an MSVC-compiled Emacs
-  with image support, you should try to build the required libraries
-  with the same compiler (though it can be extremely non-trivial, and
-  we'll be interested on hearing of any such effort).
+  the GnuWin32 project.  These are built with MinGW, but they can be
+  used with both GCC/MinGW and MSVC builds of Emacs.
 
 * Building
 
@@ -162,7 +168,7 @@
 * Trouble-shooting
 
   The main problems that are likely to be encountered when building
-  Emacs stem from using an old version of GCC, or old Mingw or W32 API
+  Emacs stem from using an old version of GCC, or old MinGW or W32 API
   headers.  Additionally, cygwin ports of GNU make may require the Emacs
   source tree to be mounted with text!=binary, because the makefiles
   generated by configure.bat necessarily use DOS line endings.  Also,