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| author | Jason Rumney | 2009-02-23 12:31:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Jason Rumney | 2009-02-23 12:31:55 +0000 |
| commit | 9b0587538efc623b79eddf46ac392f4c4f5db795 (patch) | |
| tree | 3cc80373d54a02db83d5b3069bc902e686741029 | |
| parent | a6f4f1e5b26469e5b0f8dd319d88145b6277bbf8 (diff) | |
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Modify for barebin distribution, as undumped distribution no longer exists.
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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 | ||
| 7 | This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of GNU | 7 | This README file describes how to dump a bare precompiled version of |
| 8 | Emacs for Windows NT/2000/XP and Windows 95/98/Me. This distribution | 8 | GNU Emacs for Windows. This barebin distribution supplements the |
| 9 | supplements the standard dumped precompiled distribution of Emacs, which | 9 | standard distribution of Emacs, which you can download from: |
| 10 | you can download from: | ||
| 11 | 10 | ||
| 12 | ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ | 11 | ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ |
| 13 | 12 | ||
| 14 | If you do not have the "bin" distribution, then you will need to | 13 | If you do not have the "bin" or "src" distribution, then you will need |
| 15 | download it before you can use this undumped version. Also note that | 14 | to download one of those before you can use this barebin version. |
| 16 | you should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs | 15 | |
| 17 | with more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs | 16 | An additional feature of the barebin version that is not present in |
| 18 | after patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. | 17 | the 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 | ||
| 19 | should only need to dump Emacs yourself if you want to dump Emacs with | ||
| 20 | more elisp files than are included normally, or to rebuild Emacs after | ||
| 21 | patching one of the elisp files that is preloaded. | ||
| 19 | 22 | ||
| 20 | The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a | 23 | The dumping process consists of running a bare Emacs, loading up a |
| 21 | number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable | 24 | number of general elisp files, and then creating a new Emacs executable |
| @@ -23,7 +26,7 @@ preinitialized and ready to run. In the precompiled distributions, | |||
| 23 | Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. | 26 | Emacs has already been dumped with the standard configuration. |
| 24 | 27 | ||
| 25 | To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by | 28 | To dump Emacs, unpack this distribution into the directory created by |
| 26 | unpacking the corresponding standard precompiled distribution. To | 29 | unpacking the corresponding standard src or bin distribution. To |
| 27 | verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that | 30 | verify that you unpacked in the proper place, check to make sure that |
| 28 | you now have a temacs.exe file in the bin directory. | 31 | you 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 | |||
| 32 | to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not | 35 | to use (the original one is renamed to emacs.exe.orig; this is not |
| 33 | overwritten if you run dump more than once). | 36 | overwritten if you run dump more than once). |
| 34 | 37 | ||
| 35 | For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file that | 38 | For more information about running Emacs, read the README.W32 file |
| 36 | came with the standard dumped precompiled distribution. If you have | 39 | that came with this distribution. If you need help using Emacs on |
| 37 | problems with Emacs, including problems with dumping, send email to | 40 | Windows, including problems with dumping, send email to |
| 38 | "help-emacs-windows@gnu.org". | 41 | <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>. |
| 39 | 42 | ||
| 40 | Enjoy! | 43 | Enjoy! |
| 41 | 44 | ||