From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:17:12 +0300 Message-ID: <8335bdqs2v.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v8o94wb4.fsf@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37269"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 16:35:48 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1omyYN-0009UI-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:35:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxKa-0007R0-2M; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:17:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxKY-0007QO-48 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxKX-0002BD-Rs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:17:25 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=MIME-version:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: Date; bh=H/0q32U5q9XeIUxYw20Gy+mSRDZw1tD7KNqCtGqIX8E=; b=DlYsEvXmzv7NJpQpAnJM Dy6s41+dXuZ+uNp1Q37YZNTa7ewYnwqIBc8WEsg9s3dcqBVr2d5qsFXKzTgYyfjgrGHytg97ADHs9 vd0aTqtKugUVjZX9o9ceiLq7Mi6KsZdhdjxL9MbuYd3LQBSSYYIv54vR+ktpQ1oQON/itYAUI7cZD oqnZuwOvaCHU5lxofjYeDILdIuVUtxy9Rw+8c5Y3AoyLl4tWUT44CpSqwVcH2IJG9tyOVWlMh29G7 5DYwMXzyEtJWAFeTsDjEvpkOtpsG8o/DEkAG/6G/73g3CXxtUnO8wN2feu75PZSbJ0Dv4Rf+360FG WVoI9Jzfcqjapg==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omxKX-0001qp-BK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 09:17:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v8o94wb4.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:36:47 +0800) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:140323 Archived-At: > From: Po Lu > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:36:47 +0800 > > Peter Wyatt writes: > > > Hi there, > > > > The FAQ says that emacs 28.2 will run on all versions of Windows from > > 98 onwards, including XP.  But when I try to run it on my Windows XP > > 32 bit system I get the "not a valid Win32 application" error, both > > after downloading and extracting the emacs-28.2.zip file, and then > > deleting the extracted folder and downloading and running the > > installer. > > You will have to build the 32-bit version of yourself with MinGW; see > nt/INSTALL. Emacs continues to support Windows 9x onwards, but the > volunteer who used to provide 32-bit prebuilts has ceased to do so. There's a new one, though.