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1 Building and Installing XEmacs
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2 on Windows NT
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3
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4 David Hobley <david_hobley@optusvision.com.au>
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5 <davidh@wr.com.au>
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6 Marc Paquette <marcpa@cam.org>
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7
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8 You need a compiler package to build and install XEmacs on NT or Win95.
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9 Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2 has been successfuly used to build it on NT: we
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10 recommend this specific version (VC++ 4.1 has trouble with some macro
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11 definitions in XEmacs sources).
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12
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13 This is an extremely early release. Any help we can provide we will do
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14 so. Note however that, as of XEmacs 20.3 beta4, only X is supported
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15 and some things might not work well at first.
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17 Two methods to try it: jumpstart with pre-compiled X libraries (NT4
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18 for Intel) or the long route with X11R6.3 re-compiled from scratch.
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19 The jumpstart method is not in place yet, but the files will probably
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20 appear somewhere at ftp.xemacs.org. Here are some instructions for
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21 recompiling X:
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23 1. Get X11R6.3 (Note: you need *a lots* of free space on your drive).
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24 Modify its Win32.cf and site.def configuration files
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25 to use the single-threaded, statically linked C run-time library
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26 (libc.lib instead of msvcrt.dll). Samples Win32.cf and site.def are
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27 provided in the XEmacs nt/ directory.
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28 2. Build X11R6.3 and install it.
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29 3. Apply the following patch to include/X11/Xmd.h in the installed
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30 directory. Note: this could conceivably be better done before
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31 compiling X, but this is the order I (marcpa) used.
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32
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33 --- Xmd.h~ Thu Jun 08 23:20:40 1995
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34 +++ Xmd.h Sun Mar 16 13:09:10 1997
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35 @@ -150,8 +150,9 @@
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36 typedef CARD16 BITS16;
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37 typedef CARD8 BYTE;
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38
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39 +#ifndef WIN32
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40 typedef CARD8 BOOL;
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41 -
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42 +#endif
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43
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44
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45 4. Edit the xemacs.mak Makefile and ensure variables point to the
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46 correct place.
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47 5. copy the files ad2c.sed, config.h, paths.h and xemacs.mak from nt/
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48 into src/.
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49 6. Run nmake using xemacs.mak (nmake -f xemacs.mak) while in src/.
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50 7. Manually run the resulting temacs executable to create xemacs:
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51 temacs.exe -batch -l loadup.el dump
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52 8. You should be able to use MSDEV to run and debug temacs.exe: open a
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53 workspace by specifying "Executable files", select "temacs.exe", set
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54 the debug "Program arguments" settings (Build->Settings->Debug) to "-batch -l
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55 loadup.el run-temacs" and run it. You should be able to open any
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56 source file and set a breakpoint in it.
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57
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58 Problems:
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59 - Haven't got rid of some symbol problems which may be causing problems.
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60 - Still seems to use fork, which fails without /force option on link. I am
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61 trying to work out where it should be removed.
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62 - To make it work on X, usage of XtAppAddInput had to be commented out.
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63 This is expected to break some parts of XEmacs, so beware.
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64
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65 Any problems/questions, mail us:
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66
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67 David Hobley
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68 david_hobley@optusvision.com.au -- work email.
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69 davidh@wr.com.au -- home account.
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71 Marc Paquette
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72 marcpa@cam.org -- home account.
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