-Copyright (C) 2001-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 2001-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
Emacs for Windows
- This README file describes how to set up and run a precompiled
- version of GNU Emacs for Windows. This distribution can be found on
- the ftp.gnu.org server and its mirrors:
+ This README.W32 file describes how to set up and run a precompiled
+ distribution of GNU Emacs for Windows. You can find the precompiled
+ distribution on the ftp.gnu.org server and its mirrors:
- ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/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.
+ 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.
+
Answers to frequently asked questions, and further information about
this port of GNU Emacs and related software packages can be found via
http:
+ ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the
`Ebrowse' manual.
- + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers.
+ + ddeclient.exe - A tool for interacting with DDE servers. To be
+ invoked as "ddeclient SERVER [TOPIC]", where SERVER is the DDE
+ server name, and sends each line of its standard input to the DDE
+ server using the DdeClientTransaction API. This program is
+ supposed to be invoked via the 'call-process-region' Emacs
+ primitive.
+ hexl.exe - A tool for producing hex dumps of binary files. See the
`Editing Binary Files' node of the Emacs manual.
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
- on the same place as you got this binary distribution from. The version
- of libXpm bundled with this version of Emacs is 3.5.7, based on x.org's
- libXpm library from X11R7.3.
+ on the same place as you got this binary distribution from.
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-windows.html), or
+ 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.
but GnuTLS won't be available to the running session.
You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
- gnutls.h file) and an installer at http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/.
+ header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
+
+* libxml2 support
+
+ In order to support libxml2 at runtime, a libxml2-enabled Emacs must
+ be able to find the relevant DLLs during startup; failure to do so
+ is not an error, but libxml2 features won't be available to the
+ running session.
+
+ You can get pre-built binaries (including any required DLL and the
+ header files) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/.
* Uninstalling Emacs