From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:55:19 +0000 (+0300) Subject: nt/INSTALL: Minor fixes. X-Git-Tag: emacs-24.3.90~68 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=34cad8271df666d5f45431dba73eed02b2634657;p=emacs.git nt/INSTALL: Minor fixes. --- diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index e3d7dd072a0..1fe00a37d97 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -9,15 +9,15 @@ Windows starting with Windows 2000 and newer. Windows 9X are not supported (but the Emacs binary produced by this build will run on Windows 9X as well). + Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin, use the + normal installation instructions, ../INSTALL. + * For the brave (a.k.a. "impatient"): For those who have a working MSYS/MinGW development environment and are comfortable with running Posix configure scripts, here are the concise instructions for configuring and building the native Windows - binary of Emacs with these tools. - - Do not use this recipe with Cygwin. For building on Cygwin, use the - normal installation instructions, ../INSTALL. + binary of Emacs with these tools: 0. Start the MSYS Bash window. Everything else below is done from that window's Bash prompt. @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Windows 9X as well). You can pass other options to the configure script. Here's a typical example (for an in-place debug build): - CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=/d/usr/emacs --enable-checking + CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=/d/usr/emacs --enable-checking='yes,glyphs' 3. After the configure script finishes, it should display the resulting configuration. After that, type @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ Windows 9X as well). A correct installation makes all the rest almost trivial; a botched installation will likely make you miserable for quite some time. - There are two alternative to installing MinGW + MSYS: using the GUI + There are two alternatives to installing MinGW + MSYS: using the GUI installer, called mingw-get, provided by the MinGW project, or manual installation. The next two sections describe each one of these. @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ Windows 9X as well). you are building from the repository: . Texinfo (needed to produce the Info manuals when building from - bzr, and for "make install") + bzr/git, and for "make install") Available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/. @@ -373,11 +373,11 @@ Windows 9X as well). A few frequently used options are needed when you want to produce an unoptimized binary with runtime checks enabled: - CPPFLAGS='-DGLYPH_DEBUG=1' CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=PREFIX --enable-checking + CFLAGS='-O0 -g3' ./configure --prefix=PREFIX --enable-checking='yes,glyphs' Once invoked, the configure script will run for some time, and, if successful, will eventually produce a summary of the configuration - like this: + similar to this: Configured for `i686-pc-mingw32'. @@ -724,43 +724,6 @@ Windows 9X as well). You need the libiconv-X.Y.Z-N-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma tarball from that site. -* Experimental SVG support - - To compile with SVG, you will need pkg-config to be installed, as - the configure script invokes pkg-config to find out which compiler - switches to use for SVG. See above for the URL where you can find - pkg-config for Windows. - - SVG support is currently experimental, and not built by default. - Specify --with-rsvg and ensure you have all the dependencies in your - include path. Unless you have built a minimalist librsvg yourself - (untested), librsvg depends on a significant chunk of GTK+ to build, - plus a few Gnome libraries, libxml2, libbz2 and zlib at runtime. The - easiest way to obtain the dependencies required for building is to - download a pre-bundled GTK+ development environment for Windows. - - To use librsvg at runtime, ensure that librsvg and its dependencies - are on your PATH. If you didn't build librsvg yourself, you will - need to check with where you downloaded it from for the - dependencies, as there are different build options. If it is a - short list, then it most likely only lists the immediate - dependencies of librsvg, but the dependencies themselves have - dependencies - so don't download individual libraries from GTK+, - download and install the whole thing. If you think you've got all - the dependencies and SVG support is still not working, check your - PATH for other libraries that shadow the ones you downloaded. - Libraries of the same name from different sources may not be - compatible, this problem was encountered with libbzip2 from GnuWin32 - with libcroco from gnome.org. - - If you can see etc/images/splash.svg, then you have managed to get - SVG support working. Congratulations for making it through DLL hell - to this point. You'll probably find that some SVG images crash - Emacs. Problems have been observed in some images that contain - text, they seem to be a problem in the Windows port of Pango, or - maybe a problem with the way Cairo or librsvg is using it that - doesn't show up on other platforms. - This file is part of GNU Emacs.