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diff --git a/nt/install b/nt/install deleted file mode 100644 index d9fbfa343c1..00000000000 --- a/nt/install +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ - Building and Installing Emacs - on Windows NT and Windows 95 - -You need a compiler package to build and install Emacs on NT or Win95. -If you don't have one, precompiled versions are available in -ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/<version>. - -Configuring: - -(1) In previous versions, you needed to edit makefile.def - to reflect the compiler package that you are using. You should no - longer have to do this if you have defined the INCLUDE and LIB - environment variables, as is customary for use with Windows compilers. - (Unless you are using MSVCNT 1.1, in which case you will need - to set MSVCNT11 to be a non-zero value at the top of makefile.def.) - -(2) Choose the directory into which Emacs will be installed, and - edit makefile.def to define INSTALL_DIR to be this directory. - (Alternatively, if you have INSTALL_DIR set as an environment - variable, the build process will ignore the value in makefile.def - and use the value of the environment variable instead.) Note - that if it is not installed in the directory in which it is built, - the ~16 MB of lisp files will be copied into the installation directory. - - Also, makefile.def is sometimes unpacked read-only; use - - > attrib -r makefile.def - - to make it writable. - -(3) You may need to edit nt/paths.h to specify some other device - instead of `C:'. - -Building: - -(4) The target to compile the sources is "all", and is recursive starting - one directory up. The makefiles for the NT port are in files named - "makefile.nt". To get things started, type in this directory: - - > nmake -f makefile.nt all - - or use the ebuild.bat file. - - When the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages declaring - that some functions don't return a value, or that some data conversions - will be lossy, etc. You can safely ignore these messages. The warnings - may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but until then we - will just live with them. - - NOTE: You should not have to edit src\paths.h to get Emacs to run - correctly. All of the variables in src\paths.h are configured - during start up using the nt\emacs.bat file (which gets installed - as bin\emacs.bat -- see below). - -Installing: - -(5) Currently, Emacs requires a number of environment variables to be set - for it to run correctly. A batch file, emacs.bat, is provided that - sets these variables appropriately and then runs the executable - (emacs.bat is generated using the definition of INSTALL_DIR in - nt\makefile.def and the contents of nt\emacs.bat.in). - -(6) The install process will install the files necessary to run Emacs in - INSTALL_DIR (which may be the directory in which it was built), - and create a program manager/folder icon in a folder called GNU Emacs. - From this directory, type: - - > nmake -f makefile.nt install - - or use the install.bat file. - -(7) Create the Emacs startup file. Under Unix, this file is .emacs; - under NT and Win95, this files is _emacs. (If you would like to - use a .emacs file that, for example, you share with a Unix version - of Emacs, you can invoke Emacs with the -l option to specify the - .emacs file that you would like to load.) Note that Emacs requires - the environment variable HOME to be set in order for it to locate the - _emacs file. Ideally, HOME should not be set in the emacs.bat file - as it will be different for each user. (HOME could be set, - for example, in the System panel of the Control Panel). - -(8) Either click on the icon, or run the emacs.bat file, and away you go. - - If you would like to resize the command window that Emacs uses, - or change the font or colors, click on the program manager icon - to start Emacs. Change the settings using the "-" menu in the upper - left hand corner of the window, making sure to select the "Save" - options in the dialog boxes as you do so. Exit Emacs and restart. |