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Add URL of another site with detailed build instructions.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sat, 03 Mar 2007 11:10:34 +0000
parents 4f84c10773de
children 549efc714935
files nt/INSTALL
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/nt/INSTALL	Sat Mar 03 11:08:14 2007 +0000
+++ b/nt/INSTALL	Sat Mar 03 11:10:34 2007 +0000
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@
        command.com /c configure.bat
 
   3. Run the Make utility suitable for your environment.  If you build
-     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler:
+     with the Microsoft's Visual C compiler (but see notes about using
+     VC++ 8.0 and later below):
 
        nmake
 
@@ -108,7 +109,8 @@
   part).
 
   Note that building Emacs with Visual Studio 2005 (VC++ 8.0) is not
-  supported at this time.
+  supported at this time, due to changes introduced by Microsoft into
+  the libraries shipped with the compiler.
 
   The rest of this file assumes you have a working development
   environment.  If you just installed  such an environment, try
@@ -192,9 +194,14 @@
 
     http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoInstallationKit
 
-  and at this URL:
+  and on these URLs:
 
     http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/w32-build-emacs.html
+    http://derekslager.com/blog/posts/2007/01/emacs-hack-3-compile-emacs-from-cvs-on-windows.ashx
+
+  The second URL above includes instructions for building with MSVC,
+  as well as with MinGW, while the first URL covers only MinGW, but
+  has more details about it.
 
 * Configuring