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