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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,
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4 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 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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9 and Vista.
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11 To build and install the DJGPP port, you need to have the DJGPP ports
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12 of GCC (the GNU C compiler), GNU Make, rm, mv, and sed. See the
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13 remarks in CONFIG.BAT for more information about locations and
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14 versions. The Emacs FAQ (see info/efaq) includes pointers to Internet
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15 sites where you can find the necessary utilities; search for "MS-DOS".
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16 The configuration step (see below) will test for these utilities and
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17 will refuse to continue if any of them isn't found.
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19 Recompiling Lisp files in the `lisp' subdirectory using the various
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20 targets in the lisp/Makefile file requires additional utilities:
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21 `find' (from Findutils), GNU `echo' and `test' (from Sh-utils), and a
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22 port of Bash. However, you should not normally need to run
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23 lisp/Makefile, as all the Lisp files are distributed in byte-compiled
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24 form as well.
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26 If you are building the DJGPP version of Emacs on an DOS-like system
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27 which supports long file names (e.g. Windows 9X or Windows XP), you
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28 need to make sure that long file names are handled consistently both
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29 when you unpack the distribution and compile it. If you intend to
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30 compile with DJGPP v2.0 or later, and long file names support is
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31 enabled (LFN=y in the environment), you need to unpack Emacs
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32 distribution in a way that doesn't truncate the original long
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33 filenames to the DOS 8.3 namespace; the easiest way to do this is to
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34 use djtar program which comes with DJGPP, since it will note the LFN
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35 setting and behave accordingly. You can build Emacs with LFN=n, if
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36 some of your tools don't support long file names: just ensure that LFN
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37 is set to `n' during both unpacking and compiling.
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39 (By the time you read this, you have already unpacked the Emacs
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40 distribution, but if the explanations above imply that you should have
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41 done it differently, it's safer to delete the directory tree created
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42 by the unpacking program and unpack Emacs again, than to risk running
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43 into problems during the build process.)
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45 It is important to understand that the runtime support of long file
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46 names by the Emacs binary is NOT affected by the LFN setting during
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47 compilation; Emacs compiled with DJGPP v2.0 or later will always
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48 support long file names on Windows no matter what was the setting
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49 of LFN at compile time. However, if you compiled with LFN disabled
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50 and want to enable LFN support after Emacs was already built, you need
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51 to make sure that the support files in the lisp, etc and info
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52 directories are called by their original long names as found in the
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53 distribution. You can do this either by renaming the files manually,
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54 or by extracting them from the original distribution archive with
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55 djtar after you set LFN=y in the environment.
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57 To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
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59 djtar -x emacs.tgz
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61 (This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
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62 your system.)
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64 If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
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65 distribution. For this, create a directory called `fonts' under the
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66 Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
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67 unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
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68 type this:
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70 djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
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72 When unpacking Emacs is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
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73 created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
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74 Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
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75
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76 config msdos
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77 make install
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79 Running "config msdos" checks for several programs that are required
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80 to configure and build Emacs; if one of those programs is not found,
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81 CONFIG.BAT stops and prints an error message. If you have DJGPP
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82 version 2.0 or 2.01, it will complain about a program called
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83 DJECHO.EXE. These old versions of DJGPP shipped that program under
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84 the name ECHO.EXE, so you can simply copy ECHO.EXE to DJECHO.EXE and
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85 rerun CONFIG.BAT. If you have neither ECHO.EXE nor DJECHO.EXE, you
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86 should be able to find them in your djdevNNN.zip archive (where NNN is
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87 the DJGPP version number).
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88
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89 On Windows NT, Windows 2000/XP/Vista, running "config msdos" might
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90 print an error message like "VDM has been already loaded". This is
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91 because those systems have a program called `redir.exe' which is
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92 incompatible with a program by the same name supplied with DJGPP,
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93 which is used by config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin'
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94 subdirectory to the front of your PATH environment variable.
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96 To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
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97 directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
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98 the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following
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99 command:
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101 make bdf INSTALLDIR=..
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103 After Make finishes, you may remove the directory intlfonts-X.Y; the
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104 fonts are installed into the fonts/bdf subdirectory of the top-level
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105 Emacs directory, and that is where Emacs will look for them by
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106 default.
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107
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108 Building Emacs creates executable files in the src and lib-src
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109 directories. Installing the DJGPP port of Emacs moves these
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110 executables to a sibling directory called bin. For example, if you
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111 build in directory C:/emacs, installing moves the executables from
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112 C:/emacs/src and C:/emacs/lib-src to the directory C:/emacs/bin, so
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113 you can then delete the subdirectories C:/emacs/src and
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114 C:/emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only subdirectories you need to
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115 keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you installed intlfonts, keep
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116 the fonts directory and all its subdirectories as well.) The bin
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117 subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
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118 includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
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119 if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
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120
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121 Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
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122 ../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the
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123 Emacs executable was run from. You can override this by setting the
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124 environment variables EMACSDATA (for the location of `etc' directory),
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125 EMACSLOADPATH (for the location of `lisp' directory) and INFOPATH (for
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126 the location of the `info' directory).
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127
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128 Emacs features which require asynchronous subprocesses that depend on
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129 multitasking do not work in the DJGPP port. Synchronous subprocesses
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130 do work, so features such as compilation and grep run synchronously,
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131 unlike opn other platforms.
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132
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133 Version 2.0 of djgpp has two bugs that affect Emacs. We've included
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134 corrected versions of two files from djgpp in the msdos subdirectory:
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135 is_exec.c and sigaction.c. To work around the bugs, compile these
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136 files and link them into temacs. Djgpp versions 2.01 and later have
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137 these bugs fixed, so upgrade if you can before building Emacs.
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138
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139
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140 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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141
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142 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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143 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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144 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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145 (at your option) any later version.
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146
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147 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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148 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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149 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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150 GNU General Public License for more details.
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151
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152 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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153 along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.