Building and Installing XEmacs on Windows NT

			     David Hobley
			    Marc Paquette

Currently XEmacs for NT is in an early stage of development. Only X support
works at the moment, although native GUI/terminal support will be added at a
later date. If anyone wants to help with this, please contact us.

The port was made much easier by the groundbreaking work of Geoff Voelker
and others who worked on the GNU Emacs port to NT. Their version is available
from http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html

To get it working you will need:

1.  An X server. MI/X is available on the Internet for free; It is 
    available from:  http://www.microimages.com/www/html/freestuf/mixdlfrm.htm
2.  The MIT X11R6.3 libraries available from: ftp.x.org
3.  You'll need to compile the MIT libraries without multi-thread support.
    To do this, there is an example Win32.cf and site.def provided which
    set the relevant flags. You will also need to apply the patch in 
    nt/X11.patch in the xc/lib/X11 directory which will fix the DLL definition
    file. Once compiled and installed, you will need to apply the following
    patch to Xmd.h. This is messy and better solutions would be appreciated. 

--- Xmd.h~	Thu Jun 08 23:20:40 1995
+++ Xmd.h	Sun Mar 16 13:09:10 1997
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@
 typedef CARD16		BITS16;
 typedef CARD8		BYTE;
 
+#ifndef WIN32
 typedef CARD8           BOOL;
-
+#endif
 
4.  You will need Visual C++ V4.2 or later to compile everything. Personally we
    have tested V4.2 and V5.0.
5.  Grab the latest XEmacs beta from ftp.xemacs.org if necessary. All nt
    support is in the nt/ subdirectory.
6.  Edit the xemacs.mak file and ensure variables point to the correct place.
    Note that Visual C++ assumes a couple of environment variables INCLUDE and
    LIB to be set which specify the location of the includes and libraries.
7.  Copy the files Emacs.ad.h, config.h and paths.h from nt/ to src/.
    Note, to rebuild Emacs.ad.h a sed script is run. SED for NT is available
    from the Virtually Unix site: http://www.itribe.net/virtunix
    This is not required however in normal operation.
8.  Run make. I simply use nmake -f xemacs.mak.
9.  Change directory to the src/ directory and run the temacs executable
    manually:
                temacs -batch -l loadup.el dump
    This will produce an xemacs.exe which can be run in conjunction with your
    X server.
10. Ensure your HOME environment variable is set correctly. Also ensure TERM
    isn't set anywhere.
11. When you build, the DOC file will get created correctly. However I don't
    update the elc's by default. This means the build will fail on the DOC
    file if they don't exist. Just use the update-elcs rule and then rebuild.

Known Problems:
Please look at the TODO list for the current list of problems and people 
working on them.

Any other problems you need clarified, please email us and we will endeavour
to provide any assistance we can:

David Hobley   david_hobley@optusvision.com.au -- work email.
               davidh@wr.com.au                -- home account.

Marc Paquette  marcpa@cam.org                  -- home account.

August Hill    awhill@inlink.com