# HG changeset patch # User Jason Rumney # Date 1098044426 0 # Node ID 5bab1954e91f150e45ba609371bed17b03339b74 # Parent 124aed7b66e84f1c254f1ece642e3591d05053c5 Added note to see INSTALL.CVS, and to make sure touch creates files. diff -r 124aed7b66e8 -r 5bab1954e91f nt/INSTALL --- a/nt/INSTALL Sun Oct 17 18:09:42 2004 +0000 +++ b/nt/INSTALL Sun Oct 17 20:20:26 2004 +0000 @@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ 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 + In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.CVS in the + parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of "touch.exe" + in your path, and that it will create files that do not yet exist. To compile Emacs, you will need either Microsoft Visual C++ 2.0 or later and nmake, or a Windows port of GCC 2.95 or later with Mingw @@ -31,10 +34,14 @@ like this, we recommend the use of the supported compilers mentioned in the previous paragraph. + You will also need a copy of the Posix cp, rm and mv programs. These + and other useful Posix utilities can be obtained from the Mingw or + Cygwin projects. + If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2K/XP or Windows NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash. - Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw binaries. + Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw and binaries. For reference, here 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