From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carson Chittom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.emacs.windows Subject: Re: install emacs on windows Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:20:54 -0600 Message-ID: <4p3905tet5.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> References: <50AAA5D6.6090807@cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353363905 8189 80.91.229.3 (19 Nov 2012 22:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:25:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 23:25:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZmD-0004tF-0t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:25:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZm2-0002WJ-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:25:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40633) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZlx-0002WE-5r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZlv-0003Ds-UU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:24:57 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:57301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZlv-0003Dl-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:24:55 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TaZm4-0004lW-Hk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from net20h184.itsd.state.ms.us ([205.144.235.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from carson by net20h184.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 23:25:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: net20h184.itsd.state.ms.us User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PMyb3a249knPJTdAHytUC3FsTFs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87805 gmane.emacs.windows:5632 Archived-At: Leonhard Horstmeyer 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.