From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: andrew.maguire@ps.ge.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Emacs on 64-bit Windows platforms? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:11:17 -0500 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <6192367D59F8904CA553579EF41FEEA002569D67@ukcbgx01psge.geips.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071591434 1917 80.91.224.253 (16 Dec 2003 16:17:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 16:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 17:17:10 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AWHsk-00005l-00 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 17:17:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWIp7-0001JK-DL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AWIoT-0001Ij-8R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:16:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AWInu-0000wK-Bo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:16:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [216.35.73.164] (helo=ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AWInn-0000oF-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 12:16:07 -0500 Original-Received: from int-nj2gw-5.online-age.net (int-nj2gw-5 [3.159.236.69]) by ext-nj2gw-2.online-age.net (8.12.9/8.12.9/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id hBGGESoL019539; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:14:28 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from nyschx06psge.ps.ge.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by int-nj2gw-5.online-age.net (8.12.9/8.12.8/990426-RLH) with ESMTP id hBGGEP2w026835; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:14:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: by nyschx06psge.ps.ge.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:11:55 -0500 Original-To: john.dallman@eds.com X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15327 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15327 > I'd like to get Emacs running on the two current 64-bit > Windows platforms: > Itanium and AMD64. Both are supposed to be able to run x86 Windows > programs, but our old-faithful Emacs 19.34.6 (i386-*-nt4.0) > exits silently when run on them, without displaying any error messages or > anything else. > In any case, performance will be better when they're running as native code. > While I'm reasonably used to using Emacs, this will be my > first attempt to build or install it - or anything else with GNU autoconfig - > and I'm not sure where to start, apart from downloading the tarball. Hello John, Have you tried downloading and running Emacs 20.7 or Emacs 21.2 (or .3)? Since these versions are considerably later than 19.34 and may have had fixes to support the Windows 64 bit platforms. The precompiled versions will be easy to try out since after unpacking in any directory you can just run the emacs.exe from bin and it will automatically look for its resources relative to where it resides. You can get the precompiled binaries from these mirrors. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/faq2.html#where-precompiled This is also a good starting FAQ for Windows Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html Andrew