Emacs for Windows NT/2000 and Windows 95/98/ME
- Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
- 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2001-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.
This directory contains support for compiling and running GNU Emacs on
See the INSTALL file in this directory for detailed instructions on
building and installing Emacs on your system.
+* EXE files produced
+
+ Building and installing Emacs will produce the following executable
+ files in the bin directory.
+
+ + emacs.exe - The main Emacs executable. As this is designed to run
+ as both a text-mode application (emacs -nw) and as a GUI application,
+ it will pop up a command prompt window if run directly from Explorer.
+
+ + runemacs.exe - A wrapper for running Emacs as a GUI application
+ without popping up a command prompt window. If you create a
+ desktop shortcut for invoking Emacs, make it point to this
+ executable, not to emacs.exe.
+
+ + emacsclient.exe - A command-line client program that can
+ communicate with a running Emacs process. See the `Emacs Server'
+ node of the Emacs manual.
+
+ + emacsclientw.exe - A version of emacsclient that does not open
+ a command-line window.
+
+ + addpm.exe - A basic installer that creates Start Menu icons for Emacs.
+ Running this is optional.
+
+ + ctags.exe, etags.exe - Tools for generating tag files. See the
+ `Tags' node of the Emacs manual.
+
+ + ebrowse.exe - A tool for generating C++ browse information. See the
+ `Ebrowse' manual.
+
+ Several helper programs are installed in a version-specific
+ subdirectory of the libexec directory:
+
+ + cmdproxy.exe - Used internally by Emacs to work around problems with
+ the native shells in various versions of Windows.
+
+ + 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.
+
+ + movemail.exe - A helper application for safely moving mail from
+ a mail spool or POP server to a local user mailbox. See the
+ `Movemail' node of the Emacs manual.
+
+ + profile.exe - A helper program that generates periodic events for
+ profiling Emacs Lisp code.
+
+ + update-game-score.exe - A utility for updating the score files of
+ Emacs games.
+
* Further information
- There is a web page that serves as a FAQ for the Windows port of
- Emacs (a.k.a. NTEmacs) at:
+ The FAQ for the MS Windows port of Emacs is distributed with Emacs
+ (info manual "efaq-w32"), and also available at
- http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html
+ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/efaq-w32.html
There is also a mailing list for discussing issues related to this
port of Emacs. For information about the list, see this Web page:
Use the built in bug reporting functionality in Emacs so that it
will be seen by the right people. You can use the command M-x
- report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report, but in some
- cases there is a function to report bugs in a specific package;
- e.g. M-x gnus-bug for Gnus, M-x c-submit-bug-report for C/C++/Java
- mode, etc.
-
+ report-emacs-bug to create and send the bug report.
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