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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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16 * Required tools and sources
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19 1. You will need Visual C++ V6.0 or later to compile everything.
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21 Note that Visual C++ assumes that the environment variables INCLUDE and
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22 LIB are set to specify the location of the includes and libraries.
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23 Your PATH environment variable also needs to include the DevStudio
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24 vc\bin and sharedide\bin directories.
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26 Visual C++ V5.0 and later install a batch file called vcvars32.bat in
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27 c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\ (or wherever you
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28 installed it) that you can run before building to set up all of these
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29 environment variables. Alternatively, you can choose at setup time to
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30 have these environment variables automatically set up in the registry,
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31 which is generally a good idea.
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36 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/
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38 or one of its mirrors listed at http://www.xemacs.org/Download/index.html.
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40 (NOTE: If you are behind a firewall and have problems with FTP access,
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41 the URL http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/ works just as well.)
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43 You'll also need the packages. You probably want to get the unified
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44 packages bundle from
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46 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
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48 If you are building with international support, you also need
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50 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz
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52 Although we don't recommend it, you can also retrieve just the packages
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53 you really need if you have an extremely slow net connection or are very
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54 short on disk space. You can find the various packages in
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55 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/. You will need the xemacs-base
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56 package (and mule-base, if building with international support). You'll
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57 also need the texinfo package unless you have a copy of makeinfo.exe on
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58 your machine. If you want to download additional or updated packages
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59 from within XEmacs you'll need the efs, dired and vm packages. You'll
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60 probably also want at least the edit-utils, text-modes, fsf-compat,
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61 cc-mode, prog-modes and xemacs-devel packages.
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63 Unpack the packages into "x:\your\choice\XEmacs\xemacs-packages",
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64 for example "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\xemacs-packages".
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66 3. At this point you can choose to build for X and/or for Win32 native GUI.
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67 If you only want to build for the Win32 native GUI then skip the next
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74 Windows build for a long, long time! It may not even compile any
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75 more. If you are interested in X support, you're better off compiling
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76 the Cygwin version of XEmacs, which can handle both Win32 native and X
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77 frames (in the same binary, in fact, but not at the same time), and is
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78 actively tested with X support.
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82 1. An X server. XEmacs has been tested and runs well under MI/X,
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83 available from: http://www.microimages.com/mix/. (International aka
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84 "Mule" support even works under this X server!) Unfortunately, this is
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85 not free, but is trialware; you have to pay $25 if you want to use it
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86 for more than 15 days. XEmacs also runs (barely) under the free XWin
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87 server that comes as part of the Cygwin XFree86 package, available at
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89 ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/xfree/
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96 the same location, but unfortunately most of them behave even worse
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97 than XWin. If you have any luck with any of these, *PLEASE* email
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98 the maintainers at xemacs-nt@xemacs.org, and we'll add the info here.
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100 2. Source for the MIT X11R6.3 libraries, available from ftp.x.org.
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102 3. You'll need to compile the MIT libraries without multi-thread support.
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103 To do this, there is an example Win32.cf and site.def provided which set
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104 the relevant flags. You will also need to apply the patch in nt/X11.patch
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108 nt/Xmd.patch. This is messy and better solutions would be appreciated.
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110 4. Goto step 2 under 'Optional libraries' below.
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113 * Optional libraries
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116 1. You really want the XPM library. Grab the latest version of the
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117 xpm sources (xpm-3.4k.tar.gz at time of writing) from
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118 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux/ and unpack them somewhere.
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120 xpm sources, cd to that directory and build xpm with 'nmake -f xpm.mak'.
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122 2. You probably also want PNG image support. Grab the latest versions of zlib
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124 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux/, unpack them somewhere and read
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125 the respective READMEs for details on how to build them. The following
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126 build procedure works for zlib-1.1.3 and libpng-1.0.2:
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128 cd to the zlib directory, type 'copy msdos\makefile.w32 Makefile' and
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131 cd to the libpng directory, rename or move the zlib directory to ..\zlib
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132 and type 'nmake -f scripts\makefile.w32'.
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136 it somewhere. Copy nt\tiff.mak from the xemacs sources to the
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137 contrib\winnt subdirectory of the tiff sources, cd to that directory and
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138 build libtiff with 'nmake -f tiff.mak'. Note: tiff.mak has only been
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148 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/aux/ and unpack it somewhere.
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149 Copy nt\compface.mak from xemacs sources to the compface directory.
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150 cd to that directory and build libcompface with 'nmake -f compface.mak'.
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156 1. cd to the nt subdirectory of the xemacs distribution and copy the file
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157 config.inc.samp to config.inc. Make any necessary modifications. This
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158 file controls the options that XEmacs is built with:
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160 -- If you want international (aka "Mule") support, modify the appropriate
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189 COMPFACE_DIR="x:\location\of\your\compface\sources"
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197 -- By default, XEmacs will expect to find its packages in the
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198 subdirectories "site-packages", "mule-packages" and "xemacs-packages"
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199 under the directory "c:\Program Files\XEmacs". If you want it to look
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206 the xemacs-packages directory into which you installed the packages.
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208 -- XEmacs can build its info files more quickly if you have a copy of the
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209 makeinfo program. If you have a copy, modify the appropriate lines in
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212 MAKEINFO="x:\location\of\makeinfo.exe"
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214 If you don't have a copy of makeinfo then you'll need to have installed
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217 2. If you want to install XEmacs when you build it, modify the appropriate
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218 lines in config.inc as follows (you can also run XEmacs from its build
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224 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.2".)
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226 3. If you want to build xemacs on the command line, use
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227 `nmake install -f xemacs.mak', or just `nmake -f xemacs.mak' if you want
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228 to run XEmacs from its build directory. nmake will build temacs, the DOC
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229 file, update the elc's, dump xemacs and (optionally) install the relevant
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230 files in the directories under the installation directory.
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232 If you chose to install XEmacs, the file that you should run to start
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233 XEmacs will be installed (by default) as
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234 "c:\Program Files\XEmacs\XEmacs-21.2\i586-pc-win32\xemacs.exe".
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236 To run from the build directory, run the file "nt\xemacs.exe" off of the
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239 You may want to create a shortcut to the file from your Desktop or
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242 4. To build using MS Developer Studio, you can use the workspace file
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243 `nt/xemacs.dsw'. This was prepared for Visual C++ 6.0. If you are using
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244 Visual C++ 5.0, you can use the workspace file `nt/xemacs-vc50.dsw'. If
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245 you have a different version and neither file works, just open up
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246 `nt/xemacs.mak' from within MS Developer Studio and it will offer to wrap
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247 this Makefile in a workspace file, from which you can build. Assuming
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248 you want to run from the build directory (which you will want to do if
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249 you are planning on doing any development work on XEmacs), use the
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252 Under the General tab:
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254 Build command line: NMAKE /f xemacs.mak
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255 Output file name: ..\src\xemacs.exe
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256 Browse info file name: ..\src\temacs.bsc
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263 If you want to install XEmacs when it's built, change the build command
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264 line to "NMAKE install /f xemacs.mak". (You will have to make the same
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265 change even if you use the provided workspace nt/xemacs.dsw.)
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268 * Debugging under MS Developer Studio
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271 The build process always creates debugging and "Source Browser" information
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272 in the source tree for use with DevStudio. However that information is not
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273 very useful unless you build a debug version of XEmacs:
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275 1. Set DEBUG_XEMACS=1 and DEPEND=1 in config.inc and rebuild.
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277 2. See instructions above for obtaining a workspace file for use with
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278 MS Developer Studio. Build and debug your XEmacs this way.
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280 3. To display the contents of a lisp variable, type Shift-F9 (or use the
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281 menu) to bring up the QuickWatch window, type debug_print(variable) and
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282 click Recalculate. The output will appear in a console window, as well
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283 as in the Debug window in MS Developer Studio.
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285 4. To view Lisp variables in the "Watch" window wrap the variable in one of
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286 the helper functions from the file src\console-msw.c, for example type
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287 DSTRING(variable) in the "Watch" window to inspect a Lisp string.
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290 * Known Problems
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291 ================
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293 Please look at the PROBLEMS file for known problems. Any other problems you
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294 need clarified, please email us and we will endeavour to provide any
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297 The XEmacs NT Mailing List: xemacs-nt@xemacs.org
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298 Subscribe address: xemacs-nt-request@xemacs.org
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301 Mule code and some of the dialog box code)
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302 Andy Piper (MS Windows contributor; author of the Cygwin support and the
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303 MS Windows glyph and widget code)
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304 Jonathan Harris (MS Windows contributor; author of the MS Windows redisplay
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305 and underlying GUI code)
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306 Kirill Katsnelson (MS Windows contributor; author of the MS Windows process
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307 and printing code and some of the dialog box code;
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308 general guru on obscure MS Windows programming topics)
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309 David Hobley (early MS Windows contributor)
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310 Marc Paquette (early MS Windows contributor)
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