Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms?

Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms?

[John Dallman [311000]]

I'd like to get Emacs running on the two current 64-bit Windows platforms:
Itanium and AMD64. Both are supposed to be able to run x86 Windows
programs, but our old-faithful Emacs 19.34.6 (i386-*-nt4.0) exits silently
when run on them, without displaying any error messages or anything else.
In any case, performance will be better when they're running as native
code.

Has anyone done this before?

While I'm reasonably used to using Emacs, this will be my first attempt to
build or install it - or anything else with GNU autoconfig - and I'm not
sure
where to start, apart from downloading the tarball.

thanks,

John Dallman

RE: Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms?

[andrew.maguire]

> I'd like to get Emacs running on the two current 64-bit 
> Windows platforms:
> Itanium and AMD64. Both are supposed to be able to run x86 Windows
> programs, but our old-faithful Emacs 19.34.6 (i386-*-nt4.0) 
> exits silently when run on them, without displaying any error messages or 
> anything else.
> In any case, performance will be better when they're running as native
code.
> While I'm reasonably used to using Emacs, this will be my 
> first attempt to build or install it - or anything else with GNU
autoconfig - 
> and I'm not sure where to start, apart from downloading the tarball.
Hello John,

Have you tried downloading and running Emacs 20.7 or Emacs 21.2 (or .3)?
Since these versions are considerably later than 19.34 and may have had
fixes to support
the Windows 64 bit platforms.

The precompiled versions will be easy to try out since after unpacking in
any directory you can just run
the emacs.exe from bin and it will automatically look for its resources
relative to where it
resides.

You can get the precompiled binaries from these mirrors.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled

This is also a good starting FAQ for Windows Emacs
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

Andrew

Re: Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms?

[Jason Rumney]

"John Dallman [311000]" <john.dallman@eds.com> writes:

> I'd like to get Emacs running on the two current 64-bit Windows platforms:
> Itanium and AMD64. Both are supposed to be able to run x86 Windows
> programs, but our old-faithful Emacs 19.34.6 (i386-*-nt4.0) exits silently
> when run on them, without displaying any error messages or anything else.
> In any case, performance will be better when they're running as native
> code.
> 
> Has anyone done this before?
> 
> While I'm reasonably used to using Emacs, this will be my first attempt to
> build or install it - or anything else with GNU autoconfig - and I'm not
> sure
> where to start, apart from downloading the tarball.

You might start by downloading 21.3, or when CVS is restored to full
functionality, checking out the current CVS, which has 7 years worth
of bugfixes and other changes compared to 19.34. Some of those changes
are 64 bit implementations for other platforms. You might also want
to subscribe to emacs-devel@gnu.org (see http://mail.gnu.org) where
development discussions tend to happen.

The Windows port of Emacs does not use autoconf in its build process,
unless you want to go the Cygwin route (though 64 bit support for
Cygwin would be a prerequisite).