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8 This is a port of XEmacs to Windows 95/98/NT/2000. If you are looking for a
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9 port of GNU Emacs, see http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
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10 NT 3.51 or later is required for building on Windows NT. Note that the
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11 developers typically use NT 4.0 and Windows 2000, and there may possibly be
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12 problems under Windows 95/98 and NT 3.51. If so, please report them to
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13 xemacs-nt@xemacs.org; we are committed to maintaining compatibility with all
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19 1. You will need Visual C++ V4.0 or later to compile everything. Personally
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22 Note that Visual C++ assumes that the environment variables INCLUDE and
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23 LIB are set to specify the location of the includes and libraries.
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24 Your PATH environment variable also needs to include the DevStudio
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29 can run before building to set up all of these environment variables.
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30 Alternatively, you can choose at setup time to have these
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37 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
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39 or one of its mirrors listed at http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html.
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41 (NOTE: If you are behind a firewall and have problems with FTP access,
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42 the URL http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/ works just as well.)
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44 You'll also need the packages. You probably want to get the unified
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45 packages bundle from
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47 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
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51 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz
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53 Although we don't recommend it, you can also retrieve just the packages
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54 you really need if you have an extremely slow net connection or are very
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55 short on disk space. You can find the various packages in
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56 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/. You will need the xemacs-base
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57 package (and mule-base, if building with international support). You'll
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58 also need the texinfo package unless you have a copy of makeinfo.exe on
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60 from within XEmacs you'll need the efs, dired and vm packages. You'll
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61 probably also want at least the edit-utils, text-modes, fsf-compat,
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62 cc-mode, prog-modes and xemacs-devel packages.
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64 Unpack the packages into "x:\your\choice\XEmacs\xemacs-packages",
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65 for example "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages".
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67 3. At this point you can choose to build for X and/or for Win32 native GUI.
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75 Windows build for a long, long time! It may not even compile any
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76 more. If you are interested in X support, you're better off compiling
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77 the Cygwin version of XEmacs, which can handle both Win32 native and X
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78 frames (in the same binary, in fact, but not at the same time), and is
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83 1. An X server. XEmacs has been tested and runs well under MI/X,
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84 available from: http://www.microimages.com/mix/. (International aka
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85 "Mule" support even works under this X server!) Unfortunately, this is
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86 not free, but is trialware; you have to pay $25 if you want to use it
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87 for more than 15 days. XEmacs also runs (barely) under the free XWin
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88 server that comes as part of the Cygwin XFree86 package, available at
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98 than XWin. If you have any luck with any of these, *PLEASE* email
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99 the maintainers at xemacs-nt@xemacs.org, and we'll add the info here.
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104 To do this, there is an example Win32.cf and site.def provided which set
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126 the respective READMEs for details on how to build them. The following
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129 cd to the zlib directory, type 'copy msdos\makefile.w32 Makefile' and
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132 cd to the libpng directory, rename or move the zlib directory to ..\zlib
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137 it somewhere. Copy nt\tiff.mak from the xemacs sources to the
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138 contrib\winnt subdirectory of the tiff sources, cd to that directory and
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139 build libtiff with 'nmake -f tiff.mak'. Note: tiff.mak has only been
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141 distribution of libtiff includes a contrib\win95\makefile.w95; that might
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150 Copy nt\compface.mak from xemacs sources to the compface directory.
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157 1. cd to the nt subdirectory of the xemacs distribution and copy the file
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158 config.inc.samp to config.inc. Make any necessary modifications. This
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159 file controls the options that XEmacs is built with:
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161 -- If you want international (aka "Mule") support, modify the appropriate
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202 -- By default, XEmacs will expect to find its packages in the
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203 subdirectories "site-packages", "mule-packages" and "xemacs-packages"
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211 the xemacs-packages directory into which you installed the packages.
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213 -- XEmacs can build its info files more quickly if you have a copy of the
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214 makeinfo program. If you have a copy, modify the appropriate lines in
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219 If you don't have a copy of makeinfo then you'll need to have installed
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223 lines in config.inc as follows (you can also run XEmacs from its build
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231 3. If you want to build xemacs on the command line, use
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232 `nmake install -f xemacs.mak', or just `nmake -f xemacs.mak' if you want
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233 to run XEmacs from its build directory. nmake will build temacs, the DOC
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234 file, update the elc's, dump xemacs and (optionally) install the relevant
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237 If you chose to install XEmacs, the file that you should run to start
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239 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.2\i586-pc-win32\xemacs.exe".
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241 To run from the build directory, run the file "nt\xemacs.exe" off of the
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244 You may want to create a shortcut to the file from your Desktop or
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247 4. To build using MS Developer Studio, you can use the workspace file
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248 `nt/xemacs.dsw'. This was prepared for Visual C++ 6.0. If you are using
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249 Visual C++ 5.0, you can use the workspace file `nt/xemacs-vc50.dsw'. If
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250 you have a different version and neither file works, just open up
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251 `nt/xemacs.mak' from within MS Developer Studio and it will offer to wrap
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252 this Makefile in a workspace file, from which you can build. Assuming
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253 you want to run from the build directory (which you will want to do if
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254 you are planning on doing any development work on XEmacs), use the
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257 Under the General tab:
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259 Build command line: NMAKE /f xemacs.mak
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260 Output file name: ..\src\xemacs.exe
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261 Browse info file name: ..\src\temacs.bsc
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268 If you want to install XEmacs when it's built, change the build command
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269 line to "NMAKE install /f xemacs.mak". (You will have to make the same
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270 change even if you use the provided workspace nt/xemacs.dsw.)
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273 * Debugging under MS Developer Studio
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276 The build process always creates debugging and "Source Browser" information
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277 in the source tree for use with DevStudio. However that information is not
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278 very useful unless you build a debug version of XEmacs:
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280 1. Set DEBUG_XEMACS=1 and DEPEND=1 in config.inc and rebuild.
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282 2. See instructions above for obtaining a workspace file for use with
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283 MS Developer Studio. Build and debug your XEmacs this way.
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285 3. To display the contents of a lisp variable, type Shift-F9 (or use the
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286 menu) to bring up the QuickWatch window, type debug_print(variable) and
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287 click Recalculate. The output will appear in a console window, as well
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290 4. To view Lisp variables in the "Watch" window wrap the variable in one of
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291 the helper functions from the file src\console-msw.c, for example type
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292 DSTRING(variable) in the "Watch" window to inspect a Lisp string.
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296 ================
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298 Please look at the PROBLEMS file for known problems. Any other problems you
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299 need clarified, please email us and we will endeavour to provide any
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302 The XEmacs NT Mailing List: xemacs-nt@xemacs.org
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303 Subscribe address: xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org
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306 Mule code and some of the dialog box code)
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307 Andy Piper (MS Windows contributor; author of the Cygwin support and the
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308 MS Windows glyph and widget code)
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309 Jonathan Harris (MS Windows contributor; author of the MS Windows redisplay
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310 and underlying GUI code)
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311 Kirill Katsnelson (MS Windows contributor; author of the MS Windows process
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312 and printing code and some of the dialog box code;
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313 general guru on obscure MS Windows programming topics)
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314 David Hobley (early MS Windows contributor)
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