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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-09-21 18:28:30 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-09-21 18:28:30 +0300 |
| commit | cf9e174ae1d3b1428982204b0786a7db13d94ab7 (patch) | |
| tree | f865a94518ede23f5a2d6db8b15c4df4901bf5b1 | |
| parent | 84eb144ccb5fe80adc2d7e9d60c5a8cc794425a6 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-cf9e174ae1d3b1428982204b0786a7db13d94ab7.tar.gz | |
Document the optional zlib library in MS-Windows builds
* nt/README.W32:
* nt/INSTALL.W64:
* nt/INSTALL: Mention the optional text decompression support and
the zlib library.
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL.W64 | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/README.W32 | 14 |
3 files changed, 29 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index 99a2f3988f9..fff0eb6f8d9 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -784,6 +784,15 @@ build will run on Windows 9X and newer systems). You need the libiconv-X.Y.Z-N-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma tarball from that site. +* Optional support for decompressing text + + Emacs can decompress text if compiled with the zlib library. + Prebuilt binaries of zlib DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are + available from the ezwinports site; see above for the URL. + + (This library is also a prerequisite for several image libraries, so + you may already have it; look for zlib1.dll or libz-1.dll.) + This file is part of GNU Emacs. diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64 index e109c6f0f23..40670a6a878 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL.W64 +++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64 @@ -64,13 +64,15 @@ packages (you can copy and paste it into the shell with Shift + Insert): mingw-w64-x86_64-libjpeg-turbo \ mingw-w64-x86_64-librsvg \ mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2 \ - mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls + mingw-w64-x86_64-gnutls \ + mingw-w64-x86_64-zlib The packages include the base developer tools (autoconf, automake, grep, make, etc.), the compiler toolchain (gcc, gdb, etc.), several image libraries, an -XML library, and the GnuTLS (transport layer security) library. Only the -first three packages are required (base-devel, toolchain, xpm-nox); the rest -are optional. +XML library, the GnuTLS (transport layer security) library, and zlib for +decompressing text. Only the first three packages are required (base-devel, +toolchain, xpm-nox); the rest are optional. You can select only part of the +libraries if you don't need them all. You now have a complete build environment for Emacs. diff --git a/nt/README.W32 b/nt/README.W32 index d16ec8e319f..a061596da55 100644 --- a/nt/README.W32 +++ b/nt/README.W32 @@ -212,6 +212,20 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions. You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/. + +* zlib support + + zlib provides support for decompressing text, which is necessary for + the zlib-decompress-region primitive. + + Prebuilt binaries of zlib DLL (for 32-bit builds of Emacs) are + available from the ezwinports site; see above for the URL. For the + 64-bit DLL, see the instructions below for installing from MSYS2 + site. + + (This library is also a prerequisite for several image libraries, so + you may already have it; look for zlib1.dll or libz-1.dll.) + * Installing 64-bit optional libraries from the MSYS2 site We recommend that you use the 'pacman' utility to download the |