On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Drew Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:26 AM
>> The last Windows binary was posted on 2012-07-02.
>> Any chance we could have an update? Thx.
>
> The last Windows binary was posted on 2012-07-23.
> Any chance we could have an update? Thx.
FWIW, meanwhile here is an unofficial build just made by me:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b6tdxwdzpa9eh51/emacs-trunk-r109511-w32-i386-bin.zip
Its md5sum code is:
52acd04bfe2ce1bf662a6f801b687a33 *emacs-trunk-r109511-w32-i386-bin.zip
And FWIW, building Emacs on Windows is not difficult. The file
nt/INSTALL should tell you how to do it. If you find it difficult to
follow, maybe it should be improved. Give feedback to the
maintainers. I've written down a personal recipe for doing my builds.
I'm attaching it in case someone find it useful.
Bye,
--
Dani Moncayo
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Personal recipe for building GNU Emacs on MS-Windows platforms.
By Dani Moncayo.
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0. Prerequisites
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* Operating system: MS-Windows XP or higher.
I've actually tested this on:
- Windows XP SP3.
- Windows 7 (32 and 64-bit).
* Development environment: MinGW (www.mingw.org).
Once MinGW is installed, make sure that the "bin" and "msys\1.0\bin"
subdirectories of your installation are included in your PATH
environment variable.
Install also the "msys-base" package:
>> mingw-get install msys-base
This package provides you with a set of tools needed for the build
process.
Update the MinGW packages:
>> mingw-get update
>> mingw-get upgrade
* Internet conectivity (optional).
Needed if you don't have the (latest) source code in your machine yet.
* Version control system: Bazaar (bazaar.canonical.com) (optional).
Needed if you want to get the latest source code directly from a bzr
branch.
Make sure that the top directory of your Bazaar installation is
included in your PATH environment variable.
* Compression tool: 7-zip (http://www.7-zip.org/) (optional).
Needed if you want to generate a binary distribution automatically.
Make sure that the top directory of your 7-zip installation is
included in your PATH environment variable.
* Libraries (optional).
Emacs has some optional features that depend on some libraries. If
you want these features, you need Windows ports of such libraries:
- giflib: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
- gnutls: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
- jpeg: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
- libiconv: ??
- libpng: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
- libxml: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
- libxpm: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libXpm
- tiff: ??
- zlib: http://zlib.net/
1. Get the source code tree
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If you want a released version, download the corresponding file from
the GNU project (http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/) and extract it.
If you want the latest version of a branch (e.g. "trunk"):
* If you don't still have the branch, create it:
- Change to the directory where you want to create the branch.
- Run: >> bzr branch bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/<branch>
* If you already have the branch, update it:
- Change to the branch directory.
- Run: >> bzr pull
2. Run the "configure" script
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This step can be omitted if you have a previous build and some files
are unchanged (that includes makefile.w32-in files, nt/config.nt, and
nt/configure.bat itself).
Change to the "nt" subdirectory.
For building without libraries, run:
>> configure --with-gcc --no-opt --enable-checking --without-xpm
--without-png --without-jpeg --without-tiff --without-gif
For building with all the libraries, run:
>> configure --with-gcc --no-opt --enable-checking --cflags
-I../../libs/libxpm-3.5.8/include --cflags -I../../libs/libxpm-3.5.8/src
--cflags -I../../libs/libpng-1.4.10 --cflags -I../../libs/zlib-1.2.6 --cflags
-I../../libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include --cflags -I../../libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
--cflags -I../../libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include --cflags
-I../../libs/libxml2-2.7.8-w32-bin/include/libxml2 --cflags
-I../../libs/gnutls-3.0.16/include --cflags
-I../../libs/libiconv-1.14-2-mingw32-dev/include --distfiles
../../libs/libxpm-3.5.8/src/libXpm.dll
Notes:
* Change the library paths (after each -I) to suit your setup.
* Use --no-opt for an unoptimized build (needed for debugging).
* If you don't want to use some of the libraries described above,
don't write the correspondig "-I<path>" parameters.
* If your version of GCC is 4.6.1, add this parameter:
--cflags -fno-omit-frame-pointer
3. Run the makefile targets
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* If you have a previous build of emacs, you can take the quick way:
>> mingw32-make
>> cd ..\lisp
>> mingw32-make bzr-update
>> cd ..\nt
>> mingw32-make
>> mingw32-make info
>> mingw32-make install
* Else, you'll have to bootstrap from scratch:
>> mingw32-make bootstrap
>> mingw32-make info
>> mingw32-make install
For paralell buiding:
>> mingw32-make -j 4
>> mingw32-make -j 4 XMFLAGS="-j 4" bootstrap
The latter is for GNU Make versions < 3.82.
3. Generating a redistributable Emacs binary
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* Run the "dist" target (requires 7-zip installed and on PATH):
>> cd nt
>> mingw32-make dist
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Now you can take your binary distribution to any machine with a
MS-Windows OS. Just uncompess the zip file in the directory you want.
