From c14a1d4580b831bb1c62f273a11cee90d6ee283e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 18:16:07 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Minor copyedits of MS-Windows installation instructions * nt/INSTALL: * nt/README.W32: Add URL of Emacs dependencies on alpha.gnu.org. --- nt/INSTALL | 22 ++++++++++++++++------ nt/README.W32 | 18 +++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index fff0eb6f8d9..cd726cbecbb 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -633,11 +633,13 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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 @@ -654,7 +656,8 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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 @@ -668,7 +671,7 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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 @@ -695,6 +698,10 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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 @@ -751,7 +758,8 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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 @@ -773,6 +781,7 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). (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 @@ -788,7 +797,8 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). 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.) diff --git a/nt/README.W32 b/nt/README.W32 index a061596da55..e3f6094f9be 100644 --- a/nt/README.W32 +++ b/nt/README.W32 @@ -140,10 +140,12 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. 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 @@ -197,7 +199,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. 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 @@ -210,7 +213,8 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. 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 @@ -219,9 +223,9 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. 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.) -- 2.39.2