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1 Building and Installing XEmacs on Windows NT
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3 David Hobley
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4 Marc Paquette
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5 Jonathan Harris
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7 Currently XEmacs for win32 is in an early stage of development.
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9 The port was made much easier by the groundbreaking work of Geoff Voelker
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10 and others who worked on the GNU Emacs port to NT. Their version is available
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11 from http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html
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13 (jhar) I split the native-win32 build directory off from the nt build
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14 directory. This is probably(?) a bad thing and I intend to try to merge the
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15 w32 changes back in.
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17 To get it working you will need:
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19 1. You will need Visual C++ V4.2 or later to compile everything. Personally we
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20 have tested V4.2 and V5.0.
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21 2. Grab the latest XEmacs beta from ftp.xemacs.org if necessary. All
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22 native-win32 support is in the w32/ subdirectory.
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23 3. Edit the xemacs.mak file and ensure variables point to the correct place.
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24 Note that Visual C++ assumes a couple of environment variables INCLUDE and
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25 LIB to be set which specify the location of the includes and libraries.
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26 4. Copy the files config.h and paths.h from w32/ to src/.
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27 "nmake -f xemacs.mak distclean" will delete these files, so always edit
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28 them in the w32 direvctory and copy them over.
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29 5. "nmake -f xemacs.mak" Build temacs.exe.
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30 "nmake -f xemacs.mak dump-elcs" Update the .elc files.
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31 "nmake -f xemacs.mak dump-xemacs" Build xemacs.exe.
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32 6. Ensure your HOME environment variable is set correctly.
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33 7. The build process creates debugging and "Source Browser" information for
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34 use with MS DevStudio. To use this create a new "console" project and set
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35 the Project/Settings/Debug executable name to the full path of
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36 src\xemacs.exe. Remember to close the Source Browser file in DevStudio
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37 before rebuilding.
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38 8. If you're going to edit sources I recommend that you first get a copy of
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39 makedepend and make a list of dependencies in the makefile by doing
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40 "nmake -f xemacs.mak depend". I (jhar) have a hacked-up copy of X11R5
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41 makedepend which I can distribute if anyone wants it. Is there a real
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42 version anywhere which handles '\' as the path delimiter?
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45 Known Problems:
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46 Please look at the TODO list for the current list of problems and people
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47 working on them.
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49 David Hobley david_hobley@optusvision.com.au -- work email.
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50 davidh@wr.com.au -- home account.
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52 Marc Paquette marcpa@cam.org -- home account.
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54 August Hill awhill@inlink.com
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56 Jonathan Harris jhar@tardis.ed.ac.uk
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