From: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
Subject: Re: install emacs on windows
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:20:54 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4p3905tet5.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50AAA5D6.6090807@cam.ac.uk
Leonhard Horstmeyer <lmh69@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> I have just downloaded the emacs-24.2.tar.gz and followed the
> instructions on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/index.html
> After having downloaded a program to open tar. I unpacked the file..
> It says: "You can run Emacs without any extra steps, but if you want
> icons in your Start Menu, or for Emacs to detect the image libraries
> that are already installed on your system as part of GTK, then you
> should run the program emacs-23.3\bin\addpm.exe."
It sounds like you have the Emacs source files, which isn't much use to
you unless you want to compile it.
Try the zip files at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ instead (you
want the "bin" file, NOT the "barebin"). These are prebuilt Windows
binaries.
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2012-11-19 21:34 install emacs on windows Leonhard Horstmeyer
2012-11-19 21:54 ` drain
2012-11-19 22:20 ` Carson Chittom [this message]
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