Lacking Natural Simplicity

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Building Emacs and Unison on Windows XP

Building Emacs on Windows XP

Results from a superficial exercise with very limited use or testing:

  1. Use the instructions in .../nt/INSTALL.

  2. Compiling release 21.4 with gcc and -no-cygwin completed, but produced an emacs.exe that died with an error when run, except when run under gdb, in which case no error was observed.

  3. Compiling release 21.4 with Visual C completed and produced an emacs.exe that ran without error.

  4. Compiling a version obtained from Emacs CVS with the current versions of MingW and MSYS completed and produced an emacs.exe that ran without error.

Building Unison 2.10.2 with GTK+ v2 on Windows XP

Short form: build ocaml mingw version using cygwin tools with -mno- cygwin, get gtk2 development environment from the Win32 GAIM folks, patch so ptty handling is same as sun (die at runtime), use with MSYS ssh.

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