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7 The port was made much easier by the groundbreaking work of Geoff Voelker
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8 and others who worked on the GNU Emacs port to NT. Their version is available
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9 from http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
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13 1. You will need Visual C++ V4.0 or later to compile everything. Personally we
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14 have tested V4.0, V4.2 and V5.0.
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15 Note that Visual C++ assumes a couple of environment variables INCLUDE and
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16 LIB to be set which specify the location of the includes and libraries.
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17 Your PATH environment variable also needs to include the DevStudio vc\bin
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18 and sharedide\bin directories.
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19 Visual C++ V5.0 installs a batch file called vcvars32.bat in
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20 c:\Program Files\DevStudio\VC\bin\ (or wherever you installed it) that you
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21 can run before building to set up all of these environment variables.
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23 2. Grab the latest XEmacs source from ftp.xemacs.org if necessary. All Win32
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24 support is in the nt\ subdirectory. You'll also need the xemacs-base
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25 package from the binary-packages subdirectory and you'll probably also
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26 want at least the edit-utils, text-utils, cc-mode and prog-utils packages.
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27 Unpack the packages into, say, "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\packages".
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33 1. If you want XPM and toolbar support grab the latest version of the xpm
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34 sources (xpm-3.4k.tar.gz at time of writing) and unpack them somewhere.
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35 Copy nt\xpm.mak from the xemacs sources to the lib subdirectory of the
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36 xpm sources, cd to that directory and build xpm with `nmake -f xpm.mak`.
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38 2. cd to the nt subdirectory of the xemacs distribution and build xemacs:
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39 `nmake install -f xemacs.mak`, but read on before hitting Enter.
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41 3. If you're building with XPM support, add this to the nmake command line:
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42 HAVE_XPM=1 XPM_DIR="x:\location\of\your\xpm\source\tree"
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45 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\packages". If you want it to look elsewhere,
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46 add this to the nmake command line:
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47 PACKAGEPATH="x:\\location\\of\\your\\packages"
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48 Note the doubled-up backslashes in that path. If you want to change the
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49 package path after you've already built XEmacs, delete the file
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50 .\obj\emacs.obj and rebuild with the new value of PACKAGEPATH.
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52 5. By default, XEmacs will be installed in directories under the directory
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53 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.0". If you want to install it
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55 INSTALL_DIR="x:\your\installation\directory"
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57 6. Now you can press Enter. nmake will build temacs, the DOC file, update the
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58 elc's, dump xemacs and install the relevant files in the directories under
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59 the installation directory. Unless you set INSTALL_DIR in step 5 above, the
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60 file that you should run to start XEmacs will be installed as
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61 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.0\i386-pc-win32\runemacs.exe". You may
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62 want to create a shortcut to that file from your Desktop or Start Menu.
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64 7. The build process always creates debugging and "Source Browser" information
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65 in the source tree for use with MS DevStudio. If you actually want to debug
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66 XEmacs you should run XEmacs from the source directory instead of from the
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67 installation directory. You should probably also build a debug version of
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68 XEmacs; to do this start with a clean source tree and add DEBUG_XEMACS=1 to
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69 the nmake command line. You probably don't want to install your debug build
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70 so you should tell nmake to build the 'all' target instead of the 'install'
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73 To make use of the debugging and "Source Browser" information, create a new
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76 Link: output file name = full path of src\temacs.exe
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89 To do this, there is an example Win32.cf and site.def provided which
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90 set the relevant flags. You will also need to apply the patch in
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91 nt/X11.patch in the xc/lib/X11 directory which will fix the DLL definition
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92 file. Once compiled and installed, you will need to apply the following
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98 --- Xmd.h~ Thu Jun 08 23:20:40 1995
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109 Known Problems:
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110 Please look at the TODO list for the current list of problems and people
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113 Any other problems you need clarified, please email us and we will endeavour
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116 The XEmacs NT Mailing List: xemacs-nt@xemacs.org
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117 Subscribe address: xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org
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