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1 GNU Emacs Installation Guide for the DJGPP (a.k.a. MS-DOS) port |
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3 Copyright (C) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, |
106815 | 4 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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5 See the end of the file for license conditions. |
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7 The DJGPP port of GNU Emacs builds and runs on plain DOS and also on |
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8 all versions of MS-Windows from version 3.X on, including Windows XP, |
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12 To build and install the DJGPP port, you need to have the DJGPP ports |
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13 of GCC (the GNU C compiler), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the |
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14 remarks in CONFIG.BAT for more information about locations and |
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15 versions. The Emacs FAQ (see info/efaq) includes pointers to Internet |
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16 sites where you can find the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS". |
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17 The configuration step (see below) will test for these utilities and |
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24 or Coreutils), `grep' (from Grep), and a port of Bash. However, you |
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25 should not normally need to run lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files |
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26 are distributed in byte-compiled form as well. As for bootstrapping |
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27 itself, you will only need that if you check-out development sources |
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31 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 9X or Windows XP), you |
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33 when you unpack the distribution and compile it. With DJGPP v2.0 or |
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34 later, long file names support is by default, so you need to unpack |
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37 use djtar program which comes with DJGPP, since it will behave |
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39 build Emacs with LFN=n, if some of your tools don't support long file |
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43 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs |
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44 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have |
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50 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during |
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51 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always |
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53 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled |
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56 directories are called by their original long names as found in the |
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109 allocation: it fails DPMI resize memory block function, and it |
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111 around these bugs, first configure Emacs to use the `malloc' function |
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115 config --with-system-malloc msdos |
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116 make install |
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119 (SP1) or later and enlarge its DPMI memory limit by setting the value |
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120 of this Registry key: |
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122 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Wow\DpmiLimit |
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124 Create this key if it does not exist. The value is a DWORD; setting |
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125 it to 536870912 should let Emacs use up to 512MB of memory. |
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127 If you have other problems, either building Emacs or running the |
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128 produced binary, look in the file etc/PROBLEMS for some known problems |
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129 related to the DJGPP port (search for "MS-DOS"). |
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131 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y |
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132 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is |
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133 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following |
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136 make bdf INSTALLDIR=.. |
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138 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the |
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139 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level |
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140 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by |
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141 default. |
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143 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src |
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144 directories. Installing the DJGPP port of Emacs moves these |
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145 executables to a sibling directory called bin. For example, if you |
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146 build in directory C:/emacs, installing moves the executables from |
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147 C:/emacs/src and C:/emacs/lib-src to the directory C:/emacs/bin, so |
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148 you can then delete the subdirectories C:/emacs/src and |
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149 C:/emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only subdirectories you need to |
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150 keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you installed intlfonts, keep |
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151 the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.) The bin |
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152 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory |
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153 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful |
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154 if you run Emacs under MS Windows. |
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156 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in |
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157 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the |
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158 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the |
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159 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory), |
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163 Emacs features which require asynchronous subprocesses that depend on |
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164 multitasking do not work in the DJGPP port. Synchronous subprocesses |
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168 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included |
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170 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these |
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171 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have |
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172 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs. |
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175 This file is part of GNU Emacs. |
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177 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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178 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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179 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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180 (at your option) any later version. |
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182 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
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183 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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184 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
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185 GNU General Public License for more details. |
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187 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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188 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |