how to compile

how to compile

[Bernhard Römer]

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hi!
ok. i am honest. i am nearly a perfect newbie so here is my newbie question:
i just downloaded the source for emacs 21.2 and now i would like to compile it so i
can use it.
another bad message: i am using windows 98. at the moment there is no other
possibility for me so please help me anyway.

i hope you know how desperate i am.

greetings

bernhard römer

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Re: how to compile

[David Kastrup]

"Bernhard Römer" <bernhard-roemer@gmx.de> writes:

> ok. i am honest. i am nearly a perfect newbie so here is my newbie
> question: i just downloaded the source for emacs 21.2 and now i
> would like to compile it so i can use it.  another bad message: i am
> using windows 98. at the moment there is no other possibility for me
> so please help me anyway.
> 
> i hope you know how desperate i am.

You could compile it using MSYS and mingw32, but frankly, if you are
a newbie, why don't you use a precompiled version of 21.2 or 21.3?
Compiling yourself should only be necessary for developer versions.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: how to compile

[Johan Bockgård]

"Bernhard Römer" <bernhard-roemer@gmx.de> writes:

> ok. i am honest. i am nearly a perfect newbie so here is my newbie
> question: i just downloaded the source for emacs 21.2 and now i
> would like to compile it so i can use it. another bad message: i am
> using windows 98.

There are precompiled versions for Windows:

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled

-- 
The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the
day they start making vacuum cleaners. -- Ernst Jan Plugge

Re: how to compile

[kgold]

If you are a "perfect newbie", would it make more sense to 
just download the precompiled binaries?

"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bernhard_R=F6mer?=" <bernhard-roemer@gmx.de> writes:
> ok. i am honest. i am nearly a perfect newbie so here is my newbie
> question: i just downloaded the source for emacs 21.2 and now i
> would like to compile it so i can use it.  another bad message: i
> am using windows 98. at the moment there is no other possibility
> for me so please help me anyway.
> 
> i hope you know how desperate i am.

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-- 
Ken Goldman   kgold@watson.ibm.com   914-784-7646