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| author | Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:14:53 +0000 |
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| 19 * Building and installing | 19 * Building and installing |
| 20 | 20 |
| 21 See the INSTALL file in this directory for detailed instructions on | 21 See the INSTALL file in this directory for detailed instructions on |
| 22 building and installing Emacs on your system. | 22 building and installing Emacs on your system. |
| 23 | |
| 24 * EXE files produced | |
| 25 | |
| 26 Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable | |
| 27 files in the bin directory. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run | |
| 30 as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application, | |
| 31 it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer. | |
| 32 | |
| 33 + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application | |
| 34 without popping up a command prompt window. | |
| 35 | |
| 36 + emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can | |
| 37 communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server' | |
| 38 node of the Emacs manul. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 + emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open | |
| 41 a command-line window. | |
| 42 | |
| 43 + addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs. | |
| 44 Running this is optional. | |
| 45 | |
| 46 + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with | |
| 47 the native shells in various versions of Windows. | |
| 48 | |
| 49 + ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the | |
| 50 `Tags' node of the Emacs manual. | |
| 51 | |
| 52 + ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the | |
| 53 `Ebrowse' manual. | |
| 54 | |
| 55 + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. | |
| 56 | |
| 57 + hexl.exe - A tool for converting files to hex dumps. See the | |
| 58 `Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual. | |
| 59 | |
| 60 + movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from | |
| 61 a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the | |
| 62 `Movemail' node of the Emacs manual. | |
| 63 | |
| 64 + digest-doc.exe, sorted-doc.exe - Tools for rebuilding the | |
| 65 built-in documentation. | |
| 23 | 66 |
| 24 * Further information | 67 * Further information |
| 25 | 68 |
| 26 There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of | 69 There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of |
| 27 Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at: | 70 Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at: |