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1 Building and Installing Emacs
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2 on Windows NT/2K/XP and Windows 95/98/ME
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4 Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
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5 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 See the end of the file for copying permissions.
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8 If you used WinZip to unpack the distribution, we suggest to
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9 remove the files and unpack again with a different program!
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10 WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems,
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12 directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP
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13 site.
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15 If you are building out of CVS, then some files in this directory
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16 (.bat files, nmake.defs and makefile.w32-in) may need the line-ends
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17 fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts
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18 is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory:
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20 cvs update -kb
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22 Alternatively, use programs that convert end-of-line format, such as
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23 dos2unix and unix2dos available from GnuWin32 or dtou and utod from
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24 the DJGPP project.
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26 In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the
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27 parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of
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29 yet exist.
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31 To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or
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32 later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with MinGW
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33 and W32 API support and a port of GNU Make. You can use the Cygwin
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35 build (latest versions of the Cygwin toolkit, at least since v1.3.3,
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36 include the MinGW headers and libraries as an integral part).
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38 If you use the MinGW port of GCC and GNU Make to build Emacs, there
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39 are some compatibility issues wrt Make and the shell that is run by
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40 Make, either the standard COMMAND.COM/CMD.EXE supplied with Windows
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41 or sh.exe., a port of a Unixy shell. For reference, here is a list
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42 of which builds of GNU Make are known to work or not, and whether
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43 they work in the presence and/or absence of sh.exe, the Cygwin port
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45 will only work with Cygwin tools, due to the use of cygwin style
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51 In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process,
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52 at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use CMD.EXE, the default Windows shell,
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53 instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have
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54 MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe
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57 sh exists no sh
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59 cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): fails[1, 5] fails[2, 5]
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60 MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay
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61 MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay
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63 mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay okay[4]
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68 mingw32 compiled make 3.80: okay unknown[6]
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70 Notes:
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73 emacs source with text!=binary.
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74 [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc.
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75 [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; cannot build with early
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76 versions of cygwin.
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77 [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash.
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78 [5] fails when building leim due to the use of cygwin style paths.
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79 May work if building emacs without leim.
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80 [6] please report if you try this combination.
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82 Other compilers may work, but specific reports from people that have
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83 tried suggest that the Intel C compiler (for example) may produce an
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84 Emacs executable with strange filename completion behaviour. Unless
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85 you would like to assist by finding and fixing the cause of any bugs
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86 like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned
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87 in the previous paragraph.
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89 You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These
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90 and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from one of several
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91 projects:
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93 * http://www.mingw.org/ ( MinGW )
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94 * http://www.cygwin.com/ ( Cygwin )
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95 * http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ( UnxUtils )
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96 * http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ( GnuWin32 )
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98 If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or
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99 Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash.
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101 Additional instructions and help for building Emacs on Windows can be
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102 found at the Emacs Wiki:
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104 http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
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106 and at this URL:
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108 http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
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110 * Configuring
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112 Configuration of Emacs is now handled by running configure.bat in the
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113 nt subdirectory. It will detect which compiler you have available,
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114 and generate makefiles accordingly. You can override the compiler
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115 detection, and control optimization and debug settings, by specifying
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116 options on the command line when invoking configure.
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118 To configure Emacs to build with GCC or MSVC, whichever is available,
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119 simply change to the nt subdirectory and run `configure' with no
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120 options. To see what options are available, run `configure --help'.
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122 N.B. It is normal to see a few error messages output while configure
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123 is running, when gcc support is being tested. These cannot be
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124 surpressed because of limitations in the Windows 9x command.com shell.
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138 configure script is run. This can be setup using environment
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139 variables, or by specifying --cflags -I... options on the command-line
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144 what is wrong. (Usually, any such failures happen because some headers
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148 functionality must be found when Emacs first needs them, either on the
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149 PATH, or in the same directory as emacs.exe. Failure to find a
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150 library is not an error; the associated image format will simply be
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154 expected names of the libraries.
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156 Some image libraries have dependencies on one another, or on zlib.
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158 compile the libraries yourself, you must make sure that any dependency
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159 is in the PATH or otherwise accesible and that the binaries are
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162 Binaries for the image libraries (among many others) can be found at
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163 the GnuWin32 project. These are built with MinGW, but they can be
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166 installing image support libraries.
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170 After running configure, simply run the appropriate `make' program for
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171 your compiler to build Emacs. For MSVC, this is nmake; for GCC, it is
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172 GNU make.
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174 As the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages
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175 declaring that some functions don't return a value, or that some data
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176 conversions will be lossy, etc. You can safely ignore these messages.
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177 The warnings may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but
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178 until then we will just live with them.
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182 To install Emacs after it has compiled, simply run `nmake install'
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186 By default, Emacs will be installed in the location where it was
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188 --prefix option to configure, or by setting INSTALL_DIR when running
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189 make, like so:
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191 make install INSTALL_DIR=D:/emacs
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196 to create a Start menu icon for Emacs.
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200 The main problems that are likely to be encountered when building
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203 source tree to be mounted with text!=binary, because the makefiles
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204 generated by configure.bat necessarily use DOS line endings. Also,
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205 cygwin ports of make must run in UNIX mode, either by specifying
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206 --unix on the command line, or MAKE_MODE=UNIX in the environment.
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208 When configure runs, it attempts to detect when GCC itself, or the
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209 headers it is using, are not suitable for building Emacs. GCC version
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210 2.95 or later is needed, because that is when the Windows port gained
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211 sufficient support for anonymous structs and unions to cope with some
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212 definitions from winnt.h that are used by addsection.c. The W32 API
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214 some definitions required by addsection.c, for instance. Also, older
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215 releases of the W32 API headers from Anders Norlander contain a typo
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217 addsection.c relies on. Versions of w32api-xxx.zip from at least
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226 If configure succeeds, but make fails, install the Cygwin port of
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227 Bash, even if the table above indicates that Emacs should be able to
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228 build without sh.exe. (Some versions of Windows shells are too dumb
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232 1.1.8, you may need to specify some extra compiler flags like so:
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234 configure --with-gcc --cflags -mwin32 --cflags -D__MSVCRT__
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241 release.
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245 You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is
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246 appropriate for the compiler you used, namely DevStudio or Windbg if
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247 compiled with MSVC, or GDB if compiled with GCC.
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249 When Emacs aborts due to a fatal internal error, Emacs on Windows
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250 pops up an Emacs Abort Dialog asking you whether you want to debug
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251 Emacs or terminate it. If Emacs was built with MSVC, click YES
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252 twice, and Windbg or the DevStudio debugger will start up
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253 automatically. If Emacs was built with GCC, first start GDB and
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254 attach it to the Emacs process with the "gdb -p EMACS-PID" command,
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256 Windows Task Manager), type the "continue" command inside GDB, and
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257 only then click YES on the abort dialog. This will pass control to
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258 the debugger, and you will be able to debug the cause of the fatal
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259 error.
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261 Emacs functions implemented in C use a naming convention that reflects
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262 their names in lisp. The names of the C routines are the lisp names
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263 prefixed with 'F', and with dashes converted to underscores. For
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264 example, the function call-process is implemented in C by
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265 Fcall_process. Similarly, lisp variables are prefixed with 'V', again
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266 with dashes converted to underscores. These conventions enable you to
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267 easily set breakpoints or examine familiar lisp variables by name.
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269 Since Emacs data is often in the form of a lisp object, and the
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270 Lisp_Object type is difficult to examine manually in a debugger,
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271 Emacs provides a helper routine called debug_print that prints out a
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272 readable representation of a Lisp_Object. If you are using GDB,
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273 there is a .gdbinit file in the src directory which provides
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274 definitions that are useful for examining lisp objects. Therefore,
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275 the following tips are mainly of interest when using MSVC.
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277 The output from debug_print is sent to stderr, and to the debugger
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278 via the OutputDebugString routine. The output sent to stderr should
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279 be displayed in the console window that was opened when the
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280 emacs.exe executable was started. The output sent to the debugger
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281 should be displayed in its "Debug" output window.
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283 When you are in the process of debugging Emacs and you would like to
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284 examine the contents of a Lisp_Object variable, popup the QuickWatch
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285 window (QuickWatch has an eyeglass symbol on its button in the
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286 toolbar). In the text field at the top of the window, enter
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287 debug_print(<variable>) and hit return. For example, start and run
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288 Emacs in the debugger until it is waiting for user input. Then click
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289 on the Break button in the debugger to halt execution. Emacs should
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290 halt in ZwUserGetMessage waiting for an input event. Use the Call
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291 Stack window to select the procedure w32_msp_pump up the call stack
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292 (see below for why you have to do this). Open the QuickWatch window
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293 and enter debug_print(Vexec_path). Evaluating this expression will
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294 then print out the contents of the lisp variable exec-path.
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296 If QuickWatch reports that the symbol is unknown, then check the call
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297 stack in the Call Stack window. If the selected frame in the call
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298 stack is not an Emacs procedure, then the debugger won't recognize
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299 Emacs symbols. Instead, select a frame that is inside an Emacs
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300 procedure and try using debug_print again.
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302 If QuickWatch invokes debug_print but nothing happens, then check the
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303 thread that is selected in the debugger. If the selected thread is
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304 not the last thread to run (the "current" thread), then it cannot be
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305 used to execute debug_print. Use the Debug menu to select the current
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306 thread and try using debug_print again. Note that the debugger halts
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307 execution (e.g., due to a breakpoint) in the context of the current
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308 thread, so this should only be a problem if you've explicitly switched
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