From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Wyatt <peterwyatt59@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 13:36:47 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8o94wb4.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f175e1cd-8ee3-023e-ca4b-82ac393ef3c5@gmail.com> (Peter Wyatt's message of "Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:48:46 +1000")
Peter Wyatt <peterwyatt59@gmail.com> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-24 5:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-23 2:48 emacs 28.2 on Windows XP 32-bit Peter Wyatt
2022-10-24 5:36 ` Po Lu [this message]
2022-10-24 8:15 ` Arash Esbati
2022-10-24 10:00 ` Po Lu
2022-10-24 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
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