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   1                       Building and Installing Emacs
   2                       on Windows NT and Windows 95
   3
   4 You need a compiler package to build and install Emacs on NT or Win95.
   5 If you don't have one, precompiled versions are available in
   6 ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/ntemacs/<version>.
   7
   8 Configuring:
   9
  10 (1) In previous versions, you needed to edit makefile.def
  11     to reflect the compiler package that you are using.  You should no
  12     longer have to do this if you have defined the INCLUDE and LIB
  13     environment variables, as is customary for use with Windows compilers.
  14
  15 (2) Choose the directory into which Emacs will be installed, and
  16     edit makefile.def to define INSTALL_DIR to be this directory.  Note
  17     that if it is not installed in the directory in which it is built,
  18     the ~16 MB of lisp files will be copied into the installation directory.
  19
  20     Also, makefile.def is sometimes unpacked read-only; use
  21
  22     > attrib -r makefile.def
  23
  24     to make it writable.
  25
  26 Building:
  27
  28 (3) The target to compile the sources is "all", and is recursive starting
  29     one directory up.  The makefiles for the NT port are in files named
  30     "makefile.nt".  To get things started, type in this directory:
  31
  32     > nmake -f makefile.nt all
  33
  34     or use the ebuild.bat file.
  35
  36     When the files are compiled, you will see some warning messages declaring
  37     that some functions don't return a value, or that some data conversions
  38     will be lossy, etc.  You can safely ignore these messages.  The warnings
  39     may be fixed in the main FSF source at some point, but until then we
  40     will just live with them.
  41
  42     NOTE: You should not have to edit src\paths.h to get Emacs to run
  43     correctly.  All of the variables in src\paths.h are configured
  44     during start up using the nt\emacs.bat file (which gets installed
  45     as bin\emacs.bat -- see below).
  46
  47 Installing:
  48
  49 (4) Currently, Emacs requires a number of environment variables to be set
  50     for it to run correctly.  A batch file, emacs.bat, is provided that
  51     sets these variables appropriately and then runs the executable
  52     (emacs.bat is generated using the definition of INSTALL_DIR in
  53     nt\makefile.def and the contents of nt\emacs.bat.in).
  54
  55 (5) The install process will install the files necessary to run Emacs in
  56     INSTALL_DIR (which may be the directory in which it was built),
  57     and create a program manager/folder icon in a folder called GNU Emacs.
  58     From this directory, type:
  59
  60     > nmake -f makefile.nt install
  61
  62     or use the install.bat file.
  63
  64 (6) Create the Emacs startup file.  Under Unix, this file is .emacs;
  65     under NT and Win95, this files is _emacs.  (If you would like to
  66     use a .emacs file that, for example, you share with a Unix version
  67     of Emacs, you can invoke Emacs with the -l option to specify the
  68     .emacs file that you would like to load.)  Note that Emacs requires
  69     the environment variable HOME to be set in order for it to locate the
  70     _emacs file.  Ideally, HOME should not be set in the emacs.bat file
  71     as it will be different for each user.  (HOME could be set,
  72     for example, in the System panel of the Control Panel).
  73
  74 (7) Either click on the icon, or run the emacs.bat file, and away you go.
  75
  76     If you would like to resize the command window that Emacs uses,
  77     or change the font or colors, click on the program manager icon
  78     to start Emacs.  Change the settings using the "-" menu in the upper
  79     left hand corner of the window, making sure to select the "Save"
  80     options in the dialog boxes as you do so.  Exit Emacs and restart.