From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows emacs-25.1 i686 vs x86_64? Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 16:39:51 +0100 Message-ID: <20161103153951.GC3516@tuxteam.de> References: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1478187671 16345 195.159.176.226 (3 Nov 2016 15:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 15:41:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 03 16:41:06 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7x-0007cv-5g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:40:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33632 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7z-0003Tl-RB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:40:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55787) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7Y-0003QW-IS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:40:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7U-0005Wc-MB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:40:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:60260 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7U-0005Qn-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1c2K7L-0000zk-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:39:51 +0100 In-Reply-To: <6e2cffe5-942b-48d4-9ed5-ef39803bcd30@googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111661 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 08:32:40AM -0700, David M. Miller wrote: > When I went to download 25.1 for windows I saw two packages on the main GNU ftp server: > > emacs-25.1-i686-w64-mingw32.zip > - AND - > emacs-25.1-x86_64-w64-mingw32.zip > > but no explanation of the difference between them in the README file. > > Also, there seems to be a separate package of "deps" for each: > > emacs-25-i686-deps.zip > - AND - > emacs-25-x86_64-deps.zip > > the need for which is also not explained anywhere (dependencies? dependencies for what?). > > Does anyone know what the difference between the i686 and x86_64 packages are? > Does anyone know what the "deps" packages are for? Not exactly correct, but good enough: you want 686 if you have a 32 bit system (that'd include a 32 bit Windows running on 64 bit hardware, I guess). You want 86_64 if you are on a 64 bit system. This all assuming you are on Intel or AMD hardware (does Windows run on anything else?) regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlgbWkcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYWsQCeNIelbd5hWnUrVUBzk45qhDvj R4MAn2N89KPYXBtKz0HuOqNCKC3CCCOD =MEv1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----