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emacs-29 2cec78254e: ; * nt/INSTALL.W64: Fix wording.
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
emacs-29 2cec78254e: ; * nt/INSTALL.W64: Fix wording. |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Dec 2022 03:27:25 -0500 (EST) |
branch: emacs-29
commit 2cec78254ea7f85180748a4fe3fab6eb07982b2f
Author: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Commit: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
; * nt/INSTALL.W64: Fix wording.
---
nt/INSTALL.W64 | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/nt/INSTALL.W64 b/nt/INSTALL.W64
index b1f5dabaaf..b543034e47 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL.W64
+++ b/nt/INSTALL.W64
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ build tools for MinGW-w64 -- see https://msys2.org/.
** Download and install MinGW-w64 and MSYS2
-Go to https://msys2.org and follow the instructions. It is not
+Go to https://msys2.org and follow the instructions. It is not
necessary to install the packages suggested on those instructions.
** Download and install the necessary packages
@@ -70,9 +70,9 @@ You now have a complete build environment for Emacs.
* Install Git (optional) and disable autocrlf
-If you're going to be building the development version of Emacs from the Git
-repository, and you don't already have Git on your system, you can install it
-in your MSYS2 environment with:
+If you're going to be building the development version of Emacs from
+the Git repository (see below), and you don't already have Git on your
+system, you can install it in your MSYS2 environment with:
pacman -S git
@@ -95,19 +95,22 @@ Savannah Emacs site,
https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs.
The Emacs ftp site is located at https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/ - download the
version you want to build and put the file into a location like C:\emacs\,
then uncompress it with tar. This will put the Emacs source into a folder like
-C:\emacs\emacs-24.5:
+C:\emacs\emacs-29.1:
cd /c/emacs
- tar xJf emacs-24.5.tar.xz
+ tar xJf emacs-29.1.tar.xz
** From the Git repository
-To download the Git repository, do something like the following -- this will
-put the Emacs source into C:\emacs\emacs-26:
+To clone the Git repository, do something like the following -- this will
+put the Emacs source into C:\emacs\emacs-master:
mkdir /c/emacs
cd /c/emacs
- git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs-26
+ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git emacs-master
+
+This will produce the development sources, i.e. the master branch of
+the Emacs Git repository, in the directory C:\emacs\emacs-master.
(We recommend using the command shown on Savannah Emacs project page.)
@@ -116,11 +119,12 @@ put the Emacs source into C:\emacs\emacs-26:
Now you're ready to build and install Emacs with autogen, configure, make,
and make install.
- cd /c/emacs/emacs-26
+ cd /c/emacs/emacs-29.1 (if building a source tarball)
+ cd /c/emacs/emacs-master (if building from Git)
** Run autogen
-If you are building the development sources, run autogen to generate the
+If you are building from Git, run autogen to generate the
configure script (note: this step is not necessary if you are using a
release source tarball, as the configure file is included):
@@ -132,15 +136,16 @@ Now you can run configure, which will build the various
Makefiles -- note
that the example given here is just a simple one - for more information
on the options available please see the INSTALL file in this directory.
-The '--prefix' option specifies a location for the resulting binary files,
-which 'make install' will use - in this example we set it to C:\emacs\emacs-26.
-If a prefix is not specified the files will be put in the standard Unix
-directories located in your C:\msys64 directory, but this is not recommended.
+The '--prefix' option specifies a location for the resulting binary
+files, which 'make install' will use - in this example we set it to
+C:\programs\emacs. If a prefix is not specified the files will be put
+in the standard Unix directories located in your C:\msys64 directory,
+but this is not recommended.
Note also that we need to disable D-Bus because Emacs does not yet
support them on Windows.
- ./configure --prefix=/c/emacs/emacs-26 --without-dbus
+ ./configure --prefix=/c/programs/emacs --without-dbus
** Run make
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