Building info on ms windows

Building info on ms windows

[Lennart Borgman]

I have without much problem built Emacs on ms windows with MinGW+MSYS (there
are some problems which I will report later). However I can't build info. If
I read the makefiles correctly I need makeinfo.exe from Texinfo. I tried to
build this from Texinfo sources, but without success. Any suggestions?

- Lennart

Re: Building info on ms windows

[Frank Schmitt]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> I have without much problem built Emacs on ms windows with MinGW+MSYS (there
> are some problems which I will report later). However I can't build info. If
> I read the makefiles correctly I need makeinfo.exe from Texinfo. I tried to
> build this from Texinfo sources, but without success. Any suggestions?

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/texinfo.htm

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Re: Building info on ms windows

[Jason Rumney]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:

> I have without much problem built Emacs on ms windows with MinGW+MSYS (there
> are some problems which I will report later). However I can't build info. If
> I read the makefiles correctly I need makeinfo.exe from Texinfo. I tried to
> build this from Texinfo sources, but without success. Any suggestions?

I had not been able to find a version of Texinfo recent enough to
build the Emacs manuals with last time I looked, but your mail
persuaded me it was worth another try. gnuwin32.sourceforge.net now
has a precompiled 4.6. I just changed the makefile.w32-in for man and
lispref to work around a bug it has with command-line order.

Re: Building info on ms windows

[Peter 'Luna' Runestig]

On 2004-10-19 22:08, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> I have without much problem built Emacs on ms windows with MinGW+MSYS (there
> are some problems which I will report later). However I can't build info. If
> I read the makefiles correctly I need makeinfo.exe from Texinfo. I tried to
> build this from Texinfo sources, but without success. Any suggestions?

http://www.cygwin.com/ You don't have to build Emacs using Cygwin, just
use makeinfo from it.

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