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changeset 100557:9b0264b3b021
Document the problems on Windows Vista and the --with-system-malloc option
to config.bat.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:02:27 +0000 |
| parents | 9fca92753ff2 |
| children | 26823dad2ad9 |
| files | msdos/INSTALL |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/msdos/INSTALL Fri Dec 19 11:02:02 2008 +0000 +++ b/msdos/INSTALL Fri Dec 19 11:02:27 2008 +0000 @@ -99,6 +99,25 @@ which is used by config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin' subdirectory to the front of your PATH environment variable. +Windows Vista has several bugs in its DPMI server related to memory +allocation: it fails DPMI resize memory block function, and it +arbitrarily limits the default amount of DPMI memory to 32MB. To work +around these bugs, first configure Emacs to use the `malloc' function +from the DJGPP library. To this end, run CONFIG.BAT with the +"--with-system-malloc" option: + + config --with-system-malloc msdos + make install + +In addition, you'll need to install Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later to +Windows Vista and enlarge its DPMI memory limit by setting the value +of this Registry key: + + HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Wow\DpmiLimit + +Create this key if it does not exist. The value is a DWORD; setting +it to 536870912 should let Emacs use up to 512MB of memory. + To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following