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author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 03 Feb 1996 03:18:00 +0000 |
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11935 | 1 Building and Installing Emacs |
2 on Windows NT and Windows 95 | |
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4 You need a compiler package to build and install Emacs on NT or Win95. | |
5 If you don't have one, precompiled versions are available in | |
6 ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/<version>. | |
7 | |
8 Configuring: | |
9 | |
10 (1) In previous versions, you needed to edit makefile.def | |
11 to reflect the compiler package that you are using. You should no | |
12 longer have to do this if you have defined the INCLUDE and LIB | |
13 environment variables, as is customary for use with Windows compilers. | |
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14 (Unless you are using MSVCNT 1.1, in which case you will need |
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15 to set MSVCNT11 to be a non-zero value at the top of makefile.def.) |
11935 | 16 |
17 (2) Choose the directory into which Emacs will be installed, and | |
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18 edit makefile.def to define INSTALL_DIR to be this directory. |
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19 (Alternatively, if you have INSTALL_DIR set as an environment |
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20 variable, the build process will ignore the value in makefile.def |
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21 and use the value of the environment variable instead.) Note |
11935 | 22 that if it is not installed in the directory in which it is built, |
23 the ~16 MB of lisp files will be copied into the installation directory. | |
24 | |
25 Also, makefile.def is sometimes unpacked read-only; use | |
26 | |
27 > attrib -r makefile.def | |
28 | |
29 to make it writable. | |
30 | |
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31 (3) You may need to edit nt/paths.h to specify some other device |
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32 instead of `C:'. |
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11935 | 34 Building: |
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36 (4) The target to compile the sources is "all", and is recursive starting |
11935 | 37 one directory up. The makefiles for the NT port are in files named |
38 "makefile.nt". To get things started, type in this directory: | |
39 | |
40 > nmake -f makefile.nt all | |
41 | |
42 or use the ebuild.bat file. | |
43 | |
44 When the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages declaring | |
45 that some functions don't return a value, or that some data conversions | |
46 will be lossy, etc. You can safely ignore these messages. The warnings | |
47 may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but until then we | |
48 will just live with them. | |
49 | |
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50 NOTE: You should not have to edit src\paths.h to get Emacs to run |
11935 | 51 correctly. All of the variables in src\paths.h are configured |
52 during start up using the nt\emacs.bat file (which gets installed | |
53 as bin\emacs.bat -- see below). | |
54 | |
55 Installing: | |
56 | |
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57 (5) Currently, Emacs requires a number of environment variables to be set |
11935 | 58 for it to run correctly. A batch file, emacs.bat, is provided that |
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59 sets these variables appropriately and then runs the executable |
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60 (emacs.bat is generated using the definition of INSTALL_DIR in |
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61 nt\makefile.def and the contents of nt\emacs.bat.in). |
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63 (6) The install process will install the files necessary to run Emacs in |
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64 INSTALL_DIR (which may be the directory in which it was built), |
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65 and create a program manager/folder icon in a folder called GNU Emacs. |
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66 From this directory, type: |
11935 | 67 |
68 > nmake -f makefile.nt install | |
69 | |
70 or use the install.bat file. | |
71 | |
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72 (7) Create the Emacs startup file. Under Unix, this file is .emacs; |
11935 | 73 under NT and Win95, this files is _emacs. (If you would like to |
74 use a .emacs file that, for example, you share with a Unix version | |
75 of Emacs, you can invoke Emacs with the -l option to specify the | |
76 .emacs file that you would like to load.) Note that Emacs requires | |
77 the environment variable HOME to be set in order for it to locate the | |
78 _emacs file. Ideally, HOME should not be set in the emacs.bat file | |
79 as it will be different for each user. (HOME could be set, | |
80 for example, in the System panel of the Control Panel). | |
81 | |
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82 (8) Either click on the icon, or run the emacs.bat file, and away you go. |
11935 | 83 |
84 If you would like to resize the command window that Emacs uses, | |
85 or change the font or colors, click on the program manager icon | |
86 to start Emacs. Change the settings using the "-" menu in the upper | |
87 left hand corner of the window, making sure to select the "Save" | |
88 options in the dialog boxes as you do so. Exit Emacs and restart. |