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* INSTALL: Add comment about TCC; fix typos.
author | Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> |
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date | Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:05:40 +0000 |
parents | 94fbb2d40d7f |
children | 903baf781824 |
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--- a/nt/INSTALL Tue Feb 24 10:28:57 2009 +0000 +++ b/nt/INSTALL Tue Feb 24 11:05:40 2009 +0000 @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ If you are building out of CVS, then some files in this directory (.bat files, nmake.defs and makefile.w32-in) may need the line-ends - fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts + fixing first. The easiest way to do this and avoid future conflicts is to run the following command in this (emacs/nt) directory: cvs update -kb @@ -146,18 +146,18 @@ or sh.exe., a port of a Unixy shell. For reference, below is a list of which builds of GNU Make are known to work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence of sh.exe, the Cygwin port - of Bash. Note that any version of Make that is compiled with Cygwin + of Bash. Note that any version of Make that is compiled with Cygwin will only work with Cygwin tools, due to the use of cygwin style paths. This means Cygwin Make is unsuitable for building parts of Emacs that need to invoke Emacs itself (leim and "make bootstrap", for example). Also see the Trouble-shooting section below if you decide to go ahead and use Cygwin make. - In addition, using 4NT as your shell is known to fail the build process, - at least for 4NT version 3.01. Use CMD.EXE, the default Windows shell, - instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various problems. If you have - MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to force the use of cmd.exe - instead of sh.exe. + In addition, using 4NT or TCC as your shell is known to fail the build + process, at least since 4NT version 3.01. Use CMD.EXE, the default + Windows shell, instead. MSYS sh.exe also appears to cause various + problems. If you have MSYS installed, try "make SHELL=cmd.exe" to + force the use of cmd.exe instead of sh.exe. sh exists no sh @@ -303,9 +303,9 @@ SVG support is currently experimental, and not built by default. Specify --with-svg and ensure you have all the dependencies in your - include path. Unless you have built a minimalist librsvg yourself + include path. Unless you have built a minimalist librsvg yourself (untested), librsvg depends on a significant chunk of GTK+ to build, - plus a few Gnome libraries, libxml2, libbz2 and zlib at runtime. The + plus a few Gnome libraries, libxml2, libbz2 and zlib at runtime. The easiest way to obtain the dependencies required for building is to download a pre-bundled GTK+ development environment for Windows. GTK puts its header files all over the place, so you will need to @@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ short list, then it most likely only lists the immediate dependencies of librsvg, but the dependencies themselves have dependencies - so don't download individual libraries from GTK+, - download and install the whole thing. If you think you've got all + download and install the whole thing. If you think you've got all the dependencies and SVG support is still not working, check your PATH for other libraries that shadow the ones you downloaded. Libraries of the same name from different sources may not be @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ If you can see etc/images/splash.svg, then you have managed to get SVG support working. Congratulations for making it through DLL hell - to this point. You'll probably find that some SVG images crash + to this point. You'll probably find that some SVG images crash Emacs. Problems have been observed in some images that contain text, they seem to be a problem in the Windows port of Pango, or maybe a problem with the way Cairo or librsvg is using it that @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ make distclean In addition to the files removed by make clean, this also removes Makefiles and other generated files to get back to the state of a - freshly unpacked source distribution. Note that this will not remove + freshly unpacked source distribution. Note that this will not remove installed files, or the results of builds performed with different compiler or optimization options than the current configuration. After make distclean, it is necessary to run configure.bat followed