-Copyright (C) 2001-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Emacs for Windows
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
This server contains other distributions, including the full Emacs
- source distribution and a barebin distribution which can be installed
- over it, as well as older releases of Emacs for Windows.
+ source distribution, as well as older releases of Emacs for Windows.
Information on how to compile Emacs from sources on Windows is in
- the files README and INSTALL in this directory. If you received
- this file as part of the Emacs source distribution, please read
- those 2 files and not this one.
+ the files README and INSTALL in the nt/ sub-directory of the
+ top-level Emacs directory in the source distribution. If you
+ received this file as part of the Emacs source distribution, and are
+ looking for information on how to build Emacs on MS-Windows, please
+ read those 2 files and not this one.
* Preliminaries
- Along with this file should be four subdirectories (bin, libexec,
- share, and var).
+ The binary distribution has these top-level directories:
+ + bin
+ + libexec
+ + share
+ + var
* Setting up Emacs
- To install Emacs, simply unpack all the files into a directory of
- your choice, but note that you might encounter minor problems if
- there is a space anywhere in the directory name. To complete the
- installation process, you can optionally run the program addpm.exe
- in the bin subdirectory. This will put an icon for Emacs in the
- Start Menu under "Start -> Programs -> Gnu Emacs".
+ To install Emacs, simply unpack the binary package into a directory
+ of your choice. To complete the installation process, you can
+ optionally run the program addpm.exe in the bin subdirectory. This
+ will put an icon for Emacs in the Start Menu under
+ "Start -> Programs -> Gnu Emacs".
Some users have reported that the Start Menu item is not created for
them. If this happens, just create your own shortcut to runemacs.exe,
downloaded from the Microsoft site, and comes in a form of a single
dynamic library called UNICOWS.DLL. If this library is not
accessible to Emacs, it will pop up a dialog saying that it cannot
- find the library, and will refuse to start up a GUI session.
- (However, it is still possible to use Emacs in text mode, even
- without UNICOWS.DLL, by invoking it as "emacs -nw", see below.)
+ find the library, and will refuse to start up.
* Starting Emacs
* Image support
Emacs has built in support for XBM and PPM/PGM/PBM images, and the
+ libXpm library is bundled, providing XPM support (required for color
+ toolbar icons and splash screen). Source for libXpm should be available
+ from the same place from which you got this binary distribution.
+
+ Emacs can also support some other image formats with appropriate
libraries. These libraries are all available on the following sites:
1. http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
-- leaner, more up-to-date builds, only for 32-bit Emacs
2. http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php
http://www.gtk.org/download/win64.php
- -- GTK project site; offers much fatter builds, but includes 64-bit
- DLLs
+ -- the GTK project site; offers much fatter builds, but includes
+ 64-bit DLLs (from the 2nd URL)
3. GnuWin32 project -- very old builds, not recommended
- Emacs will find these libraries if the directory they are installed
- in is on the PATH.
+ The libraries to download are mentioned below. Some libraries
+ depend on others that need to be downloaded separately from the same
+ site; please consult the download instructions on each site for the
+ details. In general, the ezwinports site mentioned above has all
+ the dependencies bundled in the same zip archive, so installing from
+ there is the easiest.
- Emacs can also support some other image formats with appropriate
- libraries. These libraries are all available as part of GTK
- download for Windows (http://www.gtk.org/download/win32.php), or
- from the GnuWin32 project. Emacs will find them if the directory
- they are installed in is on the PATH.
+ Emacs will find these libraries if the directory they are installed
+ in is on the PATH or in the same directory where you have emacs.exe.
+ Here are some specific comments about each image type:
PNG: requires the PNG reference library 1.4 or later, which will
be named libpngNN.dll or libpngNN-NN.dll. LibPNG requires zlib,
JPEG: requires the Independent JPEG Group's libjpeg 6b or later,
which will be called jpeg62.dll, libjpeg.dll, jpeg-62.dll or jpeg.dll.
- TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiff3.dll
- or libtiff.dll.
+ TIFF: requires libTIFF 3.0 or later, which will be called libtiffN.dll
+ or libtiff-N.dll or libtiff.dll.
GIF: requires libungif or giflib 4.1 or later, which will be
called libgif-6.dll, giflib4.dll, libungif4.dll or libungif.dll.
librsvg-2-2.dll. SVG also requires several dependency DLLs,
such as Pango, Cairo, and Glib, all of them found on the
above-mentioned sites. If you download from the ezwinports
- site, you need only librsvg-2.nn.x-bin.zip, it comes with all
- the other dependencies bundled.
+ site, you need only librsvg-2.nn.mm-x-w32-bin.zip, it comes with
+ all the other dependencies bundled.
If you have image support DLLs under different names, customize the
value of `dynamic-library-alist'.
- In addition, Emacs can be compiled to support SVG. This precompiled
- distribution has not been compiled that way, since the SVG library
- or one or more of its extensive dependencies appear to be
- unreliable under Windows. See nt/INSTALL in the src distribution if
- you wish to compile Emacs with SVG support.
-
* GnuTLS support
GnuTLS provides SSL/TLS network support for Emacs (https, imaps and
key in HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Just delete the whole Software\GNU\Emacs
key.
- The Start menu entry can be removed by right-clicking on the Task bar
+ The Start menu entry can be removed by right-clicking on the Taskbar
and selecting Properties, then using the Remove option on the Start
Menu Programs page. (If you installed under an account with
administrator privileges, then you need to click the Advanced button
* Further information
- The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
- (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at
+ The Emacs User manual describes Windows-specific issues in the
+ appendix named "Emacs and Microsoft Windows/MS-DOS". You can read
+ it in Emacs by typing
+
+ C-h r g Microsoft Windows RET
+
+ This appendix is also available (as part of the entire manual) at
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/emacs.html#Microsoft-Windows
- In addition to the FAQ, there is a mailing list for discussing issues
- related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about the
- list, see this Web page:
+ In addition to the manual, there is a mailing list for discussing
+ issues related to the Windows port of Emacs. For information about
+ the list, see this Web page:
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-emacs-windows