emacs under Cygwin

emacs under Cygwin

[Paminu]

I just downloaded emacs 21.4a from:

http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/

I unzipped it to my home dir in c:\cygwin and opened a shell and entered the 
dir and typed ./configure. But then I get this error:

configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to 'i686-pc-cygwin' systems.

Is there no way to install emacs under cygwin?

I would prefer to build a native linux version under Cygwin instead of 
installing the windows version. 

Re: emacs under Cygwin

[Ehud Karni]

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 13:44:21 +0200, Paminu <asdad@asd.com> wrote:
>
> I just downloaded emacs 21.4a from:
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
>
> I unzipped it to my home dir in c:\cygwin and opened a shell and entered the
> dir and typed ./configure. But then I get this error:
>
> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to 'i686-pc-cygwin' systems.
>
> Is there no way to install emacs under cygwin?
>
> I would prefer to build a native linux version under Cygwin instead of
> installing the windows version.

You can use the Cygwin's distributed Emacs (21.2) - just use setup to
download/install it. If you want to compile and install Emacs yourself,
You'll have to get it from CVS (Emacs 22.0.50), this build as is.

To get the CVS emacs do:

export CVS_RSH="ssh"
cvs -z3 -d:ext:anoncvs@savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/emacs co emacs

Then install it as you would do on UNIX, i.e.
    configure
    make bootstarp
    make install

Ehud.


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Re: emacs under Cygwin

[Chris McMahan]

I assume you are running Cygwin under windows?

May I ask why you don't want to use the windows port? I've been
happily working with both for many years now.

- Chris

"Paminu" <asdad@asd.com> writes:

> I just downloaded emacs 21.4a from:
>
> http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/emacs/
>
> I unzipped it to my home dir in c:\cygwin and opened a shell and entered the 
> dir and typed ./configure. But then I get this error:
>
> configure: error: Emacs hasn't been ported to 'i686-pc-cygwin' systems.
>
> Is there no way to install emacs under cygwin?
>
> I would prefer to build a native linux version under Cygwin instead of 
> installing the windows version. 
>
>

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Re: emacs under Cygwin

[Paulo da Costa]

Chris McMahan wrote:
> I assume you are running Cygwin under windows?
> 
> May I ask why you don't want to use the windows port? I've been
> happily working with both for many years now.

I run emacs under cygwin, and I prefer it. It is integrated with all the
other tools I have running under there. I can download and build my own
version every time I want to. I set up an emacsclient.bat to be called
from Windows, so there's really no difference.

I got my emacs using cvs from savannah.gnu.org. I use 22.0.50.1 (the
latest from less than a month ago) and I had no problem building it
under cygwin. If you pay attention to the ./configure messages you may
find out you have to go back and install some packages from cygwin -
such as a compiler :) or automake or some such -, but otherwise it's
pretty seamless.

Paulo

Re: emacs under Cygwin

[Paulo da Costa]

Ehud Karni wrote:
[...]
> You can use the Cygwin's distributed Emacs (21.2) [...]

My cygwin installer shows 21.3.50.

> [...] If you want to compile and install Emacs yourself,
> You'll have to get it from CVS (Emacs 22.0.50), this build as is.

This is the one I'm using now, and I would recommend it.

Paulo

emacs under cygwin

[fpefpe]

Hello -- I am having a start-up problem with emacs running under cygwin 

I get this error when it start -- 

C:/CYGWIN/bin/emacs-X11.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

is there a way to log/trace the startup of emacs? 

thanks 

Re: emacs under cygwin

[Keith Osterheld]

Just run eamacs --debug-init. That should give you more info.
fpefpe writes:

> Hello -- I am having a start-up problem with emacs running under cygwin 
>
> I get this error when it start -- 
>
> C:/CYGWIN/bin/emacs-X11.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> is there a way to log/trace the startup of emacs? 
>
> thanks