To support XPM images (required for color tool-bar icons), you will
need the libXpm library. It is available from the ezwinports site,
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and from
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
For PNG images, we recommend to use versions 1.4.x and later of
libpng, because previous versions had security issues. You can find
- precompiled libraries and headers on the ezwinports site.
+ precompiled libraries and headers on the ezwinports site and on
+ alpha.gnu.
Versions 1.4.0 and later of libpng are binary incompatible with
earlier versions, so Emacs will only look for libpng libraries which
For GIF images, we recommend to use versions 5.0.0 or later of
giflib, as it is much enhanced wrt previous versions. You can find
precompiled binaries and headers for giflib on the ezwinports site,
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and on
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
Version 5.0.0 and later of giflib are binary incompatible with
previous versions (the signatures of several functions have
For JPEG images, you will need libjpeg 6b or later, which will be
called libjpeg-N.dll, jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, or jpeg.dll. You can
- find these on the ezwinports site.
+ find these on the ezwinports site and on alpha.gnu.
TIFF images require libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called
libtiffN.dll or libtiff-N.dll or libtiff.dll. These can be found on
because the compiler needs to see their header files when building
Emacs.
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
+
+ More fat ports, from the MSYS2 project.
+
To use librsvg at runtime, ensure that librsvg and its dependencies
are on your PATH, or in the same directory as the emacs.exe binary.
If you are downloading from the ezwinports site, you only need to
session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
- header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
+ and on http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
* Optional libxml2 support
(including any required DLL and the header files) is here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/
For runtime support of libxml2, you will also need to install the
libiconv "development" tarball, because the libiconv headers need to
Emacs can decompress text if compiled with the zlib library.
Prebuilt binaries of zlib DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are
- available from the ezwinports site; see above for the URL.
+ available from the ezwinports site and on alpha.gnu; see above for
+ the URLs.
(This library is also a prerequisite for several image libraries, so
you may already have it; look for zlib1.dll or libz-1.dll.)
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
-- up-to-date builds, self-contained archives, only for 32-bit Emacs
- 2. The MSYS2 project -- for 64-bit Emacs:
+ 2. Libraries from the MSYS2 project on alpha.gnu.org:
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
+ 3. The MSYS2 project -- for 64-bit Emacs:
http://msys2.github.io/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/REPOS/MINGW/x86_64/
- 3. GnuWin32 project -- very old 32-bit builds, not recommended
+ 4. GnuWin32 project -- very old 32-bit builds, not recommended
The libraries to download are mentioned below. Some libraries
depend on others that need to be downloaded separately from the same
but GnuTLS won't be available to the running session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any dependency DLLs) at
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and on
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
* libxml2 support
running session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
- header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+ header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/ and
+ http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/.
* zlib support
the zlib-decompress-region primitive.
Prebuilt binaries of zlib DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are
- available from the ezwinports site; see above for the URL. For the
- 64-bit DLL, see the instructions below for installing from MSYS2
- site.
+ available from the ezwinports site and on alpha.gnu; see above for
+ the URLs. For the 64-bit DLL, see the instructions below for
+ installing from MSYS2 site.
(This library is also a prerequisite for several image libraries, so
you may already have it; look for zlib1.dll or libz-1.dll.)