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authorJason Rumney2009-02-23 12:31:55 +0000
committerJason Rumney2009-02-23 12:31:55 +0000
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@@ -4,18 +4,21 @@ See the end of the file for license conditions.
4 4
5 Emacs for Windows 5 Emacs for Windows
6 6
7This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU 7This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of
8Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This distribution 8GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the
9supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which 9standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from:
10you can download from:
11 10
12 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ 11 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/
13 12
14If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to 13If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need
15download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that 14to download one of those before you can use this barebin version.
16you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs 15
17with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs 16An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in
18after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. 17the bin distribution is that it contains an undumped binary of Emacs
18(temacs.exe). This can be used to dump Emacs yourself. Note that you
19should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with
20more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after
21patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded.
19 22
20The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a 23The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a
21number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable 24number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable
@@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions,
23Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. 26Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration.
24 27
25To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by 28To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by
26unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To 29unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To
27verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that 30verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that
28you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. 31you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory.
29 32
@@ -32,10 +35,10 @@ run dump.bat. This will produce a new bin\emacs.exe executable for you
32to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not 35to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not
33overwritten if you run dump more than once). 36overwritten if you run dump more than once).
34 37
35For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that 38For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file
36came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have 39that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on
37problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to 40Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to
38"help-emacs-windows@gnu.org". 41<help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>.
39 42
40Enjoy! 43Enjoy!
41 44