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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-01-30 13:43:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2001-01-30 13:43:00 +0000 |
| commit | 4bcec9a2c75700e57ac150e693762e11866d9ee5 (patch) | |
| tree | 473c5adce845deff2f6cb54e782b69f61740d5f0 /nt | |
| parent | 4ad25e4311961dd134b167fd51a3d968f58bd728 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-4bcec9a2c75700e57ac150e693762e11866d9ee5.tar.gz | |
Copy the table of tested combinations of development
tools from confuigure.bat. Add suggestion to install Bash on
Windows 9X.
Diffstat (limited to 'nt')
| -rw-r--r-- | nt/INSTALL | 32 |
1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL index daf0778bcfe..6a2d84d331d 100644 --- a/nt/INSTALL +++ b/nt/INSTALL @@ -6,8 +6,35 @@ support and a port of GNU make. You can use the Cygwin ports of GCC, but Emacs requires the Mingw headers and libraries to build. + If you build Emacs on Windows 9X or ME, not on Windows 2000 or + Windows/NT, we suggest to install the Cygwin port of Bash. + Please see http://www.mingw.org for pointers to GCC/Mingw binaries. + For reference, here is a list of which builds of GNU make are known + to work or not, and whether they work in the presence and/or absence + of sh.exe, the Cygwin port of Bash. + + sh exists no sh + + cygwin b20.1 make (3.75): okay[1] fails[2] + MSVC compiled gmake 3.77: okay okay + MSVC compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay okay + MSVC compiled gmake 3.79.1: okay okay + mingw32/gcc-2.92.2 make (3.77): okay[4] okay + cygwin compiled gmake 3.77: okay[1] fails[2] + cygwin compiled gmake 3.78.1: okay fails[2] + cygwin compiled gmake 3.79.1: couldn't build make[3] + + Notes: + + [1] doesn't cope with makefiles with DOS line endings, so must mount + emacs source with text!=binary. + [2] fails when needs to invoke shell commands; okay invoking gcc etc. + [3] requires LC_MESSAGES support to build; maybe 2.95.x update to + cygwin provides this? + [4] may fail on Windows 9X and Windows ME; if so, install Bash. + Configuring: Configuration of Emacs is now handled by running configure.bat in the @@ -72,6 +99,11 @@ Trouble-shooting: addsection.c relies on. Versions of w32api-xxx.zip from at least 1999-11-18 onwards are okay. + If configure succeeds, but make fails, install the Cygwin port of + Bash, even if the table above indicates that Emacs should be able to + build without sh.exe. (Some versions of Windows shells are too dumb + for Makefile's used by Emacs.) + Debugging: You should be able to debug Emacs using the debugger that is |